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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It was prevalent, it just wasn't publicized and mainstreamed as it is now.
What is your definition of filth?
Adults having sex and adults viewing it isn't illegal.
Well your premise is wrong because such activity is already against the law.
Should be.....
Pornography was not prevalent in past America, it was difficult to find and was illegal, I remember the court victories of the left/libertarians of the 1960s as they pushed to make porn “prevalent”, those were days when “banned in Boston” meant something, and legalizing bikini clad go-go girls (in cages), in clubs in Houston was a major victory for the pro porn crowd.
The liberal/libertarians have made porn “prevalent” now, it is even made mandatory by the government (schools for example), pornography is strongly enforced by the post 1960’s government as being “freedom of speech”, something that would stun the people that created this nation.
Your advocacy of a higher standard of moral values is simply no match for free market capitalism.
Yeah, those whorehouses and prostitution outfits in the developing Old West were just movie plot lines, right?.
What about the pulp fiction porn novels that were available in the "pristine" 40s and 50s?
First, this is about pornography, and porn was fought and fought pretty successfully.
I’m not aware of where the average American man could easily have put his hands on porn in the past, do you? Many of us here are old enough to remember when that took effort on a man’s part to seek it out in the shadows of life, and that was in the 1950s before the libertarian Earl Warren court, imposed so much power over our culture and communities.
In the name of “Free Market” and “Capitalism”, we have thrown away our sense of morality.
In the privacy of their own homes? What is private about putting their sexual escapades on the Internet for the world to see?
The analogy of the prostitute is more like she walks up to your door and knocks, then flashes you when you answer the doorbell.
Instead of software to filter it out, how bout you have to buy special software to get to it?
50 years ago, you could not find pictures of a man having sex with a woman. You wouldhave to trave the entire country to find some seedy little bookstore that was selling it under the counter.
Now, you can enter 8-9 keystrokes and have free porn movies depicting every kind of sex known to man. You can do it from virtually any computer in the world (except businesses that actively have to try and block it).
I can turn the channel on my cable, press 2 buttons and have a porn movie playing on TV.
Hit the wrong key by mistake and you will get porn emails from now until kingdom come.
It is PUSHED, PUSHED, PUSHED on us. It’s time we pushed it back.
Got it... Google’s filters in the last few years have been very very tough on keywords ... much harder than it used to be to “accidently” come across adult material...magritte
Very sad, isn’t it?
A related note on Playboy and mainstreaming of porn. Recently, while scanning through Sean Hannity’s show — can’t stand to watch more than 5 minutes of that phony — I heard him putting out the tease before the break for his next segment. He calls it his “Great American Panel” —phony and arrogant. Anyway, one of the panelists was Hugh Hefner’s daughter. Hannity referred to her as the “former CEO of Playboy Enterprises” without batting an eye. Disgusting.
There will be a ton of opposition to this, and it won't work. Multiple attempts at something like this have failed. About the only success has been at the corporate level, where in addition to filtering software, the corporation monitors internet use and fires people who violate policy. Technology has changed everything. Used to be you had to make a huge investment to produce still or moving images, since you had to process them yourself. With digital, a lot of the porn millionaires are twenty-something slackers with a camcorder and a good line of BS. Also, the battle always takes place at the edges. In 1954, when Playboy came out, the battle was nipples and butt cracks. Today, the battle is at child porn, rape and bondage, and bestiality. Even if you could implement the system you advocate, there will be huge battles about whether or not something is pornography and needs to be filtered.
For pornographers, getting something normalized is the big thing. They will not voluntarily opt into a walled ghetto, anymore than a mugger would opt into a "designated mugging zone." Technologically, Apple, Microsoft, ICANN and anyone selling internet domains and internet server space would have to sign on. Even if this happened, a nineteen year old slacker with a camcorder and a loose girlfriend just camcords an act and doesn't sign up for the filtering software.
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