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Originally Posted by Quentin
In the end, no matter what policy the .xxx sTLD administrators came up with, none of it would do anything to prevent kids from being exposed to porn, unless .xxx was made mandatory, and an aggressive, international enforcement and filtering regime was put into place...
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note that ICANN's power is international, so if they decided to "clean up the .com space", they could make it a requirement upon domain renewal, that any adult content needs to move to whatever other TLD, just not .COM
While there are minor issues like would sex education sites need to move out of .com, ICANN could make this a TOS requirement for the 99% other cases where its more clear cut about what is "adult". While hate speech and other "ills" of society could be targeted with the same manor, its adult content that strikes the bigger emotional chord, and therefore gets the focus.
At that point that adult sites are kicked out of .COM, then kids and adults would be less likely to trip across an adult site, since the consumers thinking is naturally to add .COM
Sounds crazy, but remember, there are a lot of forces outside of adult pushing for their own agenda of getting rid of porn, and they know trying to get a U.S. law passed will probably never happen.. and they also know that off-shore .COM would still exist... so going after porn at the domain TLD level is really the best, universal way that porn can be controlled, that is above governments.
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