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Note that they've tried over and over to get .xxx every year and for about ten years it got shot down, until they finally found the right palms to grease.
To many of us, it's clear that before long politicians will seize the opportunity and Obama has already put out feelers. Just as movies and video games have labels about content ratings, they say, sites that are "not appropriate for children" should be forced to use the .xxx ?label". Aside from actual porn sites, who will lose their investment in building traffic to their .com, politicians in the past have defined "not appropriate for children" to mean kids under 13. So if your site has any content that the government thinks is too mature for a 12 year old, you're stuck with the .xxx label and blocking.
Some people say that won't happen in places like the US, but remember Clinton signed THREE major internet censorship laws, CDA, CDA II, and COPPA. Obamas comments about "controlling the internet" the same week that .xxx was approved suggest he's no more a friend of freedom than Clinton.
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