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Originally Posted by tony286
Brad I like you and respect you very much but have to disagree.
Wanna know why I preregisted my two website domains all those years ago? Was it love for .xxx nope. It was something I learned in sales by my old mentor: An absence of a no is not a yes.
People in the industry who actually would of mattered in the eyes of Icann were silent for the most part. Hustler wrote one letter after how many years this had been going on. Lensman would make coy statements on here like: would .xxx really be a bad thing?
Big fish that would fly around the fucking world to have a pina colada at a show. But couldnt fly to an Icann meeting to say Im CEO of big adult company and Im against this. The big icann meetings should of been a who's who of the owners of adult companies and their attorneys but it wasnt. So its hard to say the industry is against this thing that will be awful for the industry and they dont show up.
When that wasnt happening way back then, I said to myself if I plan on being in this business long term. I better hedge my bets because I dont it becomes law then Im fucked. And who knows the hidden agenda's out there.
I also saw the writing on the wall, this guy spends all this money and job one isnt going to be to make it mandatory? You are truly kidding yourself if you think that.You can see when you read his statements to the mainstream press, its like I will control the animals for everyone else. And then you got Joan whom I read her duties will be spread between CA and Wash DC. Why would she be in Wash DC? My prediction is 12 months from the day the first .xxx goes on sale it will be law. And they will get around the free speech issue saying its zoning not stopping speech.
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Its true, aside from John "Buttman" Stagliano, really wasnt much mainstream adult companies publicly opposing this. California's Valley porn kings that controlled the distribution for decades before the internet came, probably dont like the new net smut peddlers. The net took their sales along with mopes now giving the stuff away for free.
But it doesnt look good in public for poor pornographers to say "please help us, we are trying to take total control once again of the smut trade by organizing a tits and ass only domain".
So they deal with a front company and spokesman that spews out water down bullshit for the masses with the deception of child protection.
Guess we'll know more if and when .XXX is launched, and which big companies are up and running on this new domain. Because most of pornos elite are not live on .mobi, .net, .org or the other tlds.
ICM will put in the hours and try to rub the right elbows to make a monopoly of suckie fuckie, because that is their business. But could US govt force everyone in adult to be totally censored, by only 1 private, profit driven company that tells u what u can or cant say. That goes against every fucking thing in the constitution.
And if the law does pass, would it stand, especially when many net porners would get kicked out of the business afterwards (cause whats the point of competition) and still much money at stake, would they just sit idly with no appeal, when still such much gold to mined? Probably not.