Bush administration objects .XXX domain
mmonnin
Centreville, VA
Assistant secretary at the Commerce Department, Michael Gallagher, wants the contract to be put on hold until further scrutiny. The new .xxx domain was planned for final approval today.
Source: News.com"For those that are still wondering what triple-X means, let's be specific, Mr. Chairman. They are talking about pornography. These are things that go very deep in our values in many of our countries. In my country, Brazil, we are very worried about this kind of decision-making process where they simply decide upon creating such new top-level generic domain names."
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wtf..... :shakehead
1) Porn isn't going to voluntarily leave .com merely because .xxx is created, they'll just have a presence in both.
2) If you want to force porn out of .com, who writes the laws? Who does the censoring? Who enforces it?
3) Did anyone read the article?
Funny how "(several) governments" asking for "time for additional governmental and public policy concerns to be expressed" becomes "Bush administration objects to .XXX domains".
And who knew that Assistant secretary at the Commerce Department, Michael Gallagher, was from Brazil?
I couldn't care one way or the other, though. Like has been said, porn won't move. It'll take both. If you could force them over, then I'd see the point. But as of now it'd just be another silly domain name.
I'm waiting for .lol, .wtf and .zomg domains.
Marc, I'm not criticizing your choice of a news article. I'm just saying that the all the article says in substance is that there is international contention as to whether .xxx should be adopted.
There is always the submit button if you would like to see something else on the front page. I cant get to it but dont let the newsposters totally control what content goes up here.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050816-5212.html
The flaws I mentioned were taken from the article itself.
This is one of those subjects on which I frequently find myself changing my mind. If it were possible to restrict porn to .xxx solely I would be for it. If nothing else it would create an easy way for parents to restrict the sites their children could view. (For that matter, there are plenty of adults who would rather not inadvertently stumble across sites like that.)
But even if it were possible to do this, who decides which sites get shunted off to the .xxx ghetto? If XXX is segregated, how long would it be before there was a call for a .rrr, .pg13, etc rating system similar to the movies to be enacted? Back when the Babe Thread was still in existence would Short-Media have been relegated to .rrr? Would that truly describe what this site is all about?
Throw in the fact that if the movie rating model was adopted these decisions would be in the hands of a very small ratings board (the movie rating board varies between eight and thirteen members) and I'm not sure we even want to start down that road.
It's a nice idea in concept, but I see more problems being caused by the execution of the standard than will be solved.