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Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat
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my posted reply:
This is an absurd argument that ICM has presented in referencing COPA.
Nowhere in history has any sTLD been pitched to be used to filter or block access. ICANN?s expansion of sTLDs was to open up namespaces for the ?sponsored community?.
.XXX has been stated by ICM that it will protect children from adult content, but it has failed to demonstrate how .XXX can do that, when a .XXX extension is VOLUNTARY.
ICM has also stated that .XXX will keep out pedofiles. Today, pedofiles use .COM domains
Why does a registar allow ?lolita? to be used in the domain name?
Suppose that 100,000 adult .COM websites registered .XXX:
1) there are still 100,000 .COM websites that children can find combined with 100,000 .XXX domain names newly added
2) parental filters aren?t install on a childs computer that could block the adult .COM today. There are several free and paid software that can block a large majority of adult sites today.
3) there is easily over 1M adult related domains that the ?protection? comes down to swiss-cheese coverage for the minority of domains that ?voluntarily? use .XXX.
.XXX can only achieve a closer level of protection, if it made mandatory by ICANN or governments.
ICANN could say that all adult related content must move to .XXX and give up its .COM
Governments could say if you are hosted in our country, you are required to move your adult .COM content to .XXX and turn off the .COM
ICM?s profit model is based on the selling of .XXX domains at a premium rate of $60/domain/year.
It would be their most profitable business case that .XXX be used as a mandatory tool.
The applauding of COPA?s enjoinment is a thin vale for what the wizard really wants.
.KIDS TLD combined with simple white-list filtering inclusion in web browsers and search engines is really the best way to truly protect children in addition to good parental controls and interest in their children?s online activities.
Lastly, ASACP.org (Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection), which is an organization funded by adult online entertainment companies, created its own labeling system found at
http://www.rtalabel.org which is FREE and can serve as a filtering mechanism for software applications.
Fight the .XXX!