Posted on 06/25/2010 2:48:50 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Internet porn sites may soon have the option to move off the ".com" main street of the Web to their very own adult-only domain: ".xxx."
But industry experts say the adult world is divided over whether or not there is actually a need for a dedicated virtual red-light district. Internet domain names are expanding exponentially.
The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), an international Internet oversight group, announced Friday that it would proceed with a proposal to register ".xxx," after rejecting the same application three years ago.
Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of ICANN's board of directors, told ABCNews.com that the board had previously rejected the .xxx proposal by ICM Registry, LLC because of disagreement over whether or not a community of adult content providers backed the proposal.
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“I know I stumbled across a whole series of porn sites while sitting with my then about 8 yr old daughter”
Set the filter in your browser. The one in Internet Explorer works really well. This is an interim solution until you decide you want to get some more robust blocking software.
“Yeah, we made the “american girl” mistake too.”
See post 14.
Oops. I meant go to the post with this info:
“Set the filter in your browser. The one in Internet Explorer works really well. This is an interim solution until you decide you want to get some more robust blocking software.”
Your points are irrelevant to the central argument I’m making.
I understood your point to be, - porn is too big a part of our business and society, and we can’t stop it, so let’s not even try.-
If that was not your point, what was your point?
No. They use it to attract perverts.
Why are they finally doing it now?
My bet is the FCC/Julius Genachowski had everything to do with it.
He so wants to get his hands on the web and make it more fair.
The voices of women and minorities are currently drowned out on the Internet, don't you know?
It worked pretty well before liberalism/libertarians took over in the 1960s.
Interesting...I typed American Girl into Google...got no porn sites for first 5 pages I looked at..what search engine are you using??...magritte
don’t worry they will be making porn okay for kids soon,
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I suspect the main reason they have not gone for the xxx domain is so that kids will accidently land on their disgusting sites.
On a related note, a number of years ago, when I was still teaching high school, I was preparing a research assignment for my students on wetlands (swamps). As part of my prep, I went online to see what kind of websites a simple search would bring my students during their research. I was appalled and angry by the number of porn sites that came up. It was evident that these smut merchants set up their search criteria so that middle and high school students would come upon them.
One throat to choke.
Without this mainstream acceptance, porno videos were relegated to a few dirty movie and magazine stores. While these stores were profitable, the profits were nowhere near as large they would have been if the producers could have persuaded stores like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video to carry them. An unstated part of this is that much of advertising is about telling someone who they are if they use your product. If the videos were in a mainstream movie store, you're just watching a movie. If you have to go to a porno movie house, you're a dirty old man in a trench coat.
The music industry was pretty straightforward in their reasoning behind the howls of protest when Al and Tipper Gore pushed for a rating system. Music deemed explicit might not get radio play and sales would suffer. The XXX domain name is the same thing. If the site is something like Teen Girls" it doesn't seem as seedy as if it had a XXX domain.
Wandering a little off topic, there's an interesting thing about vice. The profitability of it is often because there are a limited number of people willing to do it. Once the behavior becomes acceptable, the profit is largely gone. With Playboy magazine, for example, during the first ten years or so, it wasn't particularly easy to find the types of girls they wanted that were willing to pose nude, and most magazine publishers feared printing nude photos. Once it became mainstream, Playboy ceased to be "daring," and ended up being just another title on the dirty magazine rack next to Penthouse, Hustler, and whatever.
Prostitution and porn have been prevalent since the founding of this country.
that is exactly right.
"teen" anything will do it too.
No it hasn't, look up "prevalent", it only became prevalent once you guys took over in the 1960s, it didn't do well at all for the first 150 years, you would have had to look very hard for your pornography before the liberal/libertarian gains of the 1960s.
Free market does not mean free to push their filth into our face.
So, if a bunch of people were paying huge dollars to watch teenage boys punch 80 year old women (who do it for money)in the face until they bleed, you advocate letting the market regulate itself?
I don't use google any longer, but I think it was google I was using at the time. I wonder if those particular sites have gone out of business, or if someone cleaned it up. That was about 9 years or so ago.
I appreciate the suggestion. That was about 9 years ago (daughter is almost 17 now) and we don't web surf any longer. Fortunately, there weren't any images that immediately popped up, just links to sites I could tell were unacceptable.
Web advertising sites also used to have extremely graphic porno show up on mainstream sites because they just rotated the ads instead of matching them to the site content.
Google now defaults to moderate safe search which blocks a lot of sites. They also by default block sites that are proven to have illegal content (child porn and some hacking sites.) I think that search terms which have both a mainstream and a porn equivalent (rule 34 of course) will default to showing the mainstream sites first.
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