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otoh (0)
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I think the .xxx is overall a good idea, but it should be voluntary.
If it's mandated, then we'd get into all manner of wrangles about what is/isn't explicit/pornographic; most of the sites we discuss here are clear-cut, but some blogs or free sites aren't so much; we'd have folk having their sites blocked or mislabelled just for slipping a naughty word in :|
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08-14-11 12:09am
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slutty (0)
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I think .xxx is fine, but I doubt they will mandate it, and I'm sure sites that are porn but technically not XXX would not be happy.
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08-14-11 01:52am
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Drooler (Disabled)
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It seems like a silly thing for a government to spend its time on. Basically, it's too late for the xxx domain for the purpose of telling people "Look out! It's porn!"
There are already many, many sites with the .com name, and it's easy enough, usually, to tell if they've got adult content. Most of them have something on the front page to warn visitors that it's gonna be naughty.
Also, those domain names cost money. Would the government subsidize the change from .com (etc.) to .xxx? And some domains are part of the "brand."
What's more, how is the .xxx domain going to keep little underaged Johnny away from porno? ".xxx" will be there to make it even EASIER for little Johnny to find it. Of course, parental controls could use the .xxx, but porn sites already cooperate with parental control systems.
Funny, I'm reminded how some so-called political conservatives have told me that they don't want a "nanny state" with a big government meddling in other people's business, but this is just the kind of thing that social conservatives (at least) live their next day for.
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08-14-11 03:55am
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manholelover (0)
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Seems like a fairly ok idea to me, but i agree governments have far more to spend their time on.
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08-14-11 04:06am
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pat362 (0)
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Since the question has the word "try" then yes I believe that some goverments will try. Most if not all will fail. The .XXX is probably one of the biggest scam happening to the net at this moment.
People are talking about porn being tagged but have you thought of all the corporations with an internet address that ends in .com, .net, .org and
so on. Don't you think they'll have to protect their address by buying into the scam? How about cnn.xxx and all the other reputable organisations that have a standard address. I think the people behind the ".xxx" scam may have started something that will comeback to bite them on the ass.
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08-14-11 07:45am
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Denner (0)
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What is .xxx domains????
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08-14-11 08:16am
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Monahan (0)
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REPLY TO #3 - Drooler :
Most "social conservatives" I know really don't have any interest in anything like this. The only efforts in the USA in the last 20-30 years have been to limit children's access to porn but not to stop porn altogether.
As for the .xxx, if it's voluntary, I'm good with it. But making it mandatory would create a definitional nightmare. No one can conclusively define porn.
USSC Justice Potter Stewart in a 1964 decision:
"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.”
— Justice Potter Stewart, concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio 378 U.S. 184 (1964), regarding possible obscenity in The Lovers.
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08-14-11 11:16am
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messmer (Disabled)
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My concern regarding the xxx domain is that it would be too easy for a Government in a more puritanical country to shut down the whole works with one throw of the switch.
If you get all of your most hated vermins into one space it is a lot easier to kill them. Just write one little program that will bar people from access to all xxx sites, make it mandatory for all your nation's ISPs to use it .. and no more perversions and corruptions!
I voted "other" because SOME WILL.
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08-15-11 10:54am
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turboshaft (0)
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REPLY TO #7 - Monahan :
But what about the social conservatives you don't know? Didn't Bush II go a lot further than just trying to stop child porn with his Obscenity Prosecution Task Force?
I'd like to think that most anti-porn efforts are superficial--just window dressing to win over self-proclaimed moralist voters--but when they are actually dragging porn producers into court I think there's a problem. I find it ironic that the U.S., with arguably the most legally protected freedoms in the industrialized world, still seems to have a lot of problems with making hardcore porn.
And in terms of the web, since the president supposedly has a "kill switch" to it, will there be limits and laws on who can use what kind of domains? ".mil" and ".gov" are already restricted (though for pretty obvious reasons), would this be extended to our particular pursuit of happiness as well?
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08-15-11 02:21pm
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lk2fireone (0)
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I'm sure there are governments out there that consider all porn illegal. That includes all adult sites. So if adult sites convert to a xxx domain, that would just make them easier to regulate and/or bar.
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08-16-11 03:49pm
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slategrey (0)
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I'm not sure but i think that the .xxx is an overall good idea. I really dont see any drawbacks to it
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08-29-11 02:40pm
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Homegirl (Disabled)
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xxx domains? What is that?
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05-27-20 09:41am
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