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Originally posted by xxxdesign-net
Free speech? Should porn be played on popular TV channels at 5pm for the sake of free speech?! There's nothing wrong with having it on another extension like you would have porn movies playing at 5pm.. on a specialized channel... As for ISPs... all the major ones WONT block it... as for the rare ones who block it... then the free speech argument comes in and users affected will have to take up the issue with those ISPs... You'll also lose the some users living in conservative countries... but look at your paysite's members list... what is their percentage? not much...
By having a .xxx extension... you just took away all arguments for the Bush admistration to crack down on internet porn... since its now "controlled" ...
The only major problem I see.. is ok, the .com will transfer to their equivalent with .xxx ... but what about the .net....
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You are 100% wrong. Again, this issue has been debated by free speech lawyers and industry people for years, and it's almost universaly rejected by people who care about free speech (and the adult industry making money) who take the time to understand the issue.
Making an XXX extension doesn't take away the government's interest in censoring porn, nothing does that. Do you think the justice department will suddenly like porn because it's on a .xxx domain? That's is ridiculous. It just makes it much easier to censor adult content. Look at what has been happening with Visa and Mastercard. Do you believe that the government has no influence over decisions that private companies make?
By making a mandatory .xxx extension, you are giving the government all the tools they need to shut down all adult content on the internet by putting pressure on private companies to block access to .xxx domains.
Even if the government didn't do anything, can't you imagine AOL, Earthlink, and others deciding that .xxx should be blocked because a few right wing idiots threaten to boycott? Look what happened with Janet's boob on the superbowl. Why do you think that the right wing wouldn't force every major ISP to block .xxx?
Who decides what is on .xxx? The government? Do you think that softcore should be on .xxx? What about bikini content? What about GFY?
Why not just support a .kids extension and let adults enjoy the full internet? The internet is not intended for children unsupervised. It never was and it never will be. If you want to make the entire internet kid friendly, because you are too lazy to monitor your children, then you are destroying the entire interet and killing free speech.