Posted on 05/11/2006 6:07:25 AM PDT by ShadowAce
I smell a red herring... "conservative" groups? I doubt that. Conservatives should welcome such a clear and easy way to distinguish (and therefore filter) porn sites. I'm guessing that it is the latter site owners that are really the operators here.
.tel is useless, .xxx would have been great for people with kids..
That's a lot of people with too much time on their hands.
That ain't all... sorry I couldn't resist a cheap joke.
I would have been surprised if someone hadn't. ;)
That's my thinking too...
You may be right. However, I expect there actually were some "conservative" groups who simplistically thought that such a domain shouldn't be "condoned" on principle. How many people still think marijuanna should continue to be illegal despite the huge numbers who have smoked it, currently smoke it and will continue to smoke it. The same argument...we have enough problems already, we'll just make things worse, etc, etc.
This has been hashed out before on FR. .xxx would not help at all. There's nothing that would have required porn sites to give up their .com addresses. So you'd have playboy.com and playboy.xxx.
It would be easy to filter out playboy.xxx, but playboy.com is still there. So nothing is accomplished, except giving another path to get to that web site.
And there is really no way to force the porn sites to give up their .com address - who would enforce it? The US government? What about sites outside of the US?
Well... and in thinking about it some more, I'm not sure why porn site operators would resist it either. It gives them cover, inasmuch as they can sluff off charges that they are too easy for kids to find.
I don't atually believe porn site operators are interested in attracting kids. They're after people with money, and that's pretty much just adults anyway. They ought to welcome such a thing.
It's not about forcing them to give up .com addresses. It's about creating something that they would prefer to use because it gives them cover.
No it doesn't guarantee anything, but it isn't pointless, either.
You have to remember - the porn industry has introduced many of the features on the Internet (encryption, online billing, etc) that you take for granted now.
Agreed. But then I don't understand SPAM either. It is so annoying, do people actually fall for that stuff? Any company that tricks me somehow into going to their site, I'm sure as heck not going to do business with. But, hey, that's just me.
And even if you FORCED them to move to .XXX, it STILL wouldn't work.
I wouldn't bet that a teenager can't figure out how domains map to IP numbers.
Within two days, somebody's blog would have a list:
123.123.123.101 = Playboy.xxx
123.123.123.102 = NakedJanitor.xxx
123.123.123.103 = HillarysPeepShow.xxx
etc...
For some it does seem to be about forcing them to give up their .com addresses, and then shutting them down.
You are correct Ramius. I would be very easy to set a filter for ".xxx" sites. It should be mandatory that porn sites use such an addressing scheme. Right now porn can be anywhere.
I remember a few years back when I was searching for some industrial totes made by RubberMaid. Doing a search for "RubberMaid" yielded some rather unique (to be kind) sites.
There probably are a few who subscribe to that asinine way of thinking. They remind me of the story about why nineteenth-century Britain had a law against male homosexuality but no law against lesbianism -- Queen Victoria struck out any references to the latter from the bill because the whole concept offended her so.
I wonder what she'd think of some of the porn sites these days. :-)
The attraction of spam, at least for the "marketer", is that's its practically free.
Even if 1/100% of the recipients responds/reacts/clicks, it has paid for itself.
The fact that it annoys the other 99 99/100% of the population (and actually costs the recipients or their ISP money to deal with) is irrelevant to the spammers.
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