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To: Crackingham
Sex sites won't be required to sign up for .xxx addresses.

Then they wont. Why would they do something that would make it easier to filter them out?

5 posted on 06/02/2005 2:38:47 PM PDT by wyattearp (The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
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To: wyattearp

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.


14 posted on 06/02/2005 2:47:02 PM PDT by Dead Dog
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To: wyattearp

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.


20 posted on 06/02/2005 3:55:52 PM PDT by King Prout (RG'OIHGV 08 YAEGRKoirliha35u9p089 y5gep'iojq5g353hat5eohiahetb98 ye5po)
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To: wyattearp
Then they wont. Why would they do something that would make it easier to filter them out?

Exactly. This puts the lie to any phony pledge to keep the kids away.

Porn is easier for children to view than at anytime in history. Just half a century ago, adults would have to sneak into a Pussycat theater or a bookstore in a raincoat to watch pre-Lovelace films. The VCR killed the porno movie house industry and exploded home video. Cable TV broadcast softcore porn into the home, and later, satellite brought XXX.

Now, a kid whose parents don't watch him/her like a hawk every minute s/he is online inevitably gets a link to XXX sites through email without even soliciting it. You used to have to go to get porn; now, porn comes to get you.

It would have been wonderful if ICANN had required the switch from .com to .xxx just to see the industry struggle to explain why it would be a bad thing.

22 posted on 06/02/2005 6:49:06 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Freeping since March 1998. This is my blessing. This is my curse.)
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