Posted on 06/02/2005 2:35:35 PM PDT by Crackingham
Sex sites will soon be able to sign up for Web addresses in the .xxx Internet domain, but a virtual red light district won't guarantee that people can avoid pornography online, Internet experts said on Thursday. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers said late Wednesday it would move ahead with plans to set up a separate .xxx Internet domain for sexually explicit material. Sex sites won't be required to sign up for .xxx addresses. But the new domain will enable porn sites to label themselves clearly and help filtering software keep underage users away, according to ICM Registry Inc., the company that will oversee the domain.
"This is a voluntary initiative," said Robert Corn-Revere, a Washington lawyer who helped ICM develop its proposal. "We're not trying to put it forward as the ultimate solution for everything."
Child-safety advocate Donna Rice Hughes said .xxx won't help people avoid online porn because sex sites will still be able to hold on to their old .com domain names.
"It's a nice little red-light district for the pornographers, but I don't think it's going to do anything to protect kids," said Hughes, president of the group Enough is Enough. "It's not going to make filters work any better."
A spokeswoman for Playboy Enterprises Inc. said the adult entertainment company had no plans to move any of its Web sites to the new domain.
Pornography accounts for more than 10 percent of online traffic and there are more than 1 million porn Web sites currently online, according to ICM.
Efforts to ban or segregate online pornography have failed for years. The U.S. Congress in 1996 prohibited the "knowing transmission" of obscene or indecent messages to anyone under 18 years old, but the Supreme Court struck that law down a year later on the grounds that it was too broad. A narrower 1998 attempt has never enforced due to a court challenge.
easier to block.
Does this mean porn will be on the Internet in future?
Slackers!
Then they wont. Why would they do something that would make it easier to filter them out?
I have a techie question, I guess you would call it..from one who is a Tech Luddite assume ythere is a pron site.."sex.com"..you'd think the owners wouldn't what to give it up, and they aren't being forced to..but they would also probably want to register "sex.xxx" can the two sites be the same..parallel, I guess you'd say..with both linking to the same site?
yea, they can route traffic from one domain to another.
and 1/2 of that is transexual porn. Your fave! ;o)
It will take the average teenager about 10 seconds to convert the domain name to an IP address.
The only thing the dot-xxx domain will result in is more Internet porn. It is strictly a marketing gimmick.
In the same way that the Navy reports that nuclear submarines can go "faster than 20kts."
Great.
Now every legitimate company will have to once again buy another license to redurect traffic (especially if it is generic).
Every time they do this they make it worse, not better. Almost no one exclusively uses the ".tv" domain -- there is almost always a corresponding ".com" address (although they ave to be creative sometimes).
It'll be interesting if they are businesses, and would like to be easily found by those looking for them, or if they are there simple to be a corrosive agent on society. If they choose the later, then they should be hacked badly.
Yuck.
You're going to owe me a barf bag soon.
I signed you up for duty on the other thread!
It would be in the site's best interest to switch to the .xxx designation.
They can forward access requests to their .com address to their .xxx address. This should allow the filters to trap for the .xxx designation.
Pron sites should go ahead and take advantage of this.
For some value of "best interest" that includes less traffic? Whatever.
Have you heard this idea somewhere before?
Ping
believe it or not, there are folks in that business who handle their business responsibly.
on a practical side: ease of filtration means fewer complaints to their server host, which in turn reduces the risk of having their sites yanked off the web.
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