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From what I've heard they just want to see what kind of protection can be added to .XXX to protect against it becoming an international haven for certain types of illegal porn. Under .com rules the US can enforce certain content restrictions over some of the countries that objected to .XXX (those that can host stronger types of content) and so the US can restrict them via ICANN and those who control the .com/.net/etc nameservers. What the US can't do is enforce their rules on country specific TLDs, they can't even block access from US citizens without special permission as it violates the WTO rules.
To the tinfoil-hat wearers amongst us who think the government can ban access to .xxx in the future, I'd like to point towards the gambling industry. The Bush administration has been very vocal in their criticism of online gambling sites accepting US traffic, the casinos and such are located in Aruba and the UK (amongst others) using mostly .com and .net extensions. Why is the Bush administration going to all the trouble of complaining to the WTO when they could simply block access from US ISPs like you think they could do with .XXX?
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