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Originally Posted by AlienQ
On the same token those alternate credit companies will win out and people will go with that crediting bank.
The industry could weather that.
Fear is definatly a factor in this whole mess. I myself do not know if this version of .xxx will go through, but if it does...
It might not be best till the industry gets a better shot and clear deal to represent itself using .xxx as a conduit not a stop sign.
If more people got involved it can be brought together with a strong intention to justify adult to people around the world and no longer an instrument to use to gain votes when politicians on there last breath write laws that are forced against us all unjustly.
I have said this before.
The industry needs armor.
Together it can be done.
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So what you're saying is... the industry ought to, on its own power, back itself into a corner with dot-xxx and then tell the government, "Gee, aren't we good citizens, now please leave us alone!" And then we should expect that the conservative anti-porn religious people in government will say, "Yeah aren't they reformed now that they're on dot xxx," and will all the sudden after decades of trying to bring down our industry declare that porn is now okay as long as it's on a .xxx domain name? Wow... wouldn't it be wonderful if the world worked that way.
You don't get bargaining leverage by handicapping yourself FIRST and then begging your antagonist to toss you a bone for mutilating yourself.
With all due respect, your arguments remind me of the arguments of someone I know who is poised to make a lot of money off of each dot-xxx domain name sold. Let's be clear, I'm NOT suggesting at all that YOU are, but what I AM suggesting is that you probably heard arguments from someone with a FINANCIAL INTEREST in dot-xxx domain names and bought into their hype because it seemed to sound reasonable at the time. These "let's be responsible" and "dot-xxx is the path to respect from the government" arguments are coming from people WITHIN this industry who want to profit financially from dot-xxx. And those who stand to make money off this thing will only BENEFIT if dot-xxx becomes mandatory. If they win, and if dot-xxx becomes a reality, it won't take long until webmasters are complaining on the boards about the various ways they will be coerced into using these domain names.