Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 11th May 2006 19:18 UTC
Plans for an area of the internet dedicated to pornography were killed last night in a vote by overseeing organisation ICANN. In a split 9-5 board decision, the organisation acted ruthlessly, against its own previous position, in order to put an end to an increasingly difficult and controversial issue - the approval of a .xxx top-level domain.
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RE: Why are the anti-porn brigade against this?
by sigzero on Fri 12th May 2006 00:02
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I've never understood why they're so against .xxx when it could potentially make it easier to control access to those sites. If they don't want their kids browsing playboy.com, wouldn't creating a porn ghetto on the Internet be a step in the right direction?
I'm sure they'd prefer to wipe pornography off the planet entirely, but while there's so much demand for it that's rather unlikely to happen. Is this just a knee-jerk reaction to anything vaguely porn related?
Maybe without .xxx it's easier for them to stick their heads in the sand and pretend that internet pornography doesn't exist, and isn't actually a multi-million dollar business.