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http://forum.icann.org/lists/xxx-tld-agreement/

ppl still posting there, I thought this forum would be closed now

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Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat

http://forum.icann.org/lists/xxx-tld-agreement/

ppl still posting there, I thought this forum would be closed now

great.. i just send this in.. hopefully it wil make it in:

With the 9 to 5 vote against .XXX, we can now focus on solutions that will truly protect children from harmful material.

.XXX's claims that it will protect children is completely laughable since it is not the magic shield.

As a vocal oppontent to .XXX, i share many of the same sentiments as the pro-.XXX supporters in wanting to have something to keep kids away from adult content.

.XXX is not the answer.

.KIDS is a much better answer, but i understand that the reality of such an idea may never come about, since .KIDS is another content-based TLD idea like .XXX

Most TLD applications are over a trade group or some clearly defined group, like with .TRAVEL.

There are technologists and innovators like myself that feel some duty to discuss and create solutions, rather than just knocking down bad ones.

There are some solutions being worked on. While the adult online industry objected to .XXX, they don't object to the idea of protecting kids, but it has to be a way that actually works and one that still allows adult who want to find the material, the ability to do so, not some means to essentially try to strangle the content.

You may not realize it but the adult online industry funds ASACP.org, a non-profit organization that assist law enforcement and private sector companies in identifying child pornography websites. ASACP.org is celebrating its 10th year and has made a positive impact upon assisting to remove child porn from the internet.

As a soon-to-be-father, my goals are to make the internet a place where when my child (and others) are ready to click their first mouse click,that they can do so in an environment that allows them to explore the wonders of the internet, without being exposed to the harmful elements. I've been on the internet since 1989, and i saw firsthand as the web blossomed. There is certainly many negative things that are on the internet, but there are many great things as well that allow us to travel the world from our computers, in learning about different people, places, and things.

Fight the cut off!

My post made it in....

http://forum.icann.org/lists/xxx-tld.../msg00613.html

Fight the last minute!

Congrats to all that wrote in.

This shows that we can come together with a united voice when the need arises.

Sanity has prevailed.

:thumbsup

Kudos to FightThisPatent for helping educate the adult webmaster community on this issue and urging folks to write in - his leadership worked on me.

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Originally Posted by coolegg2

Kudos to FightThisPatent for helping educate the adult webmaster community on this issue and urging folks to write in - his leadership worked on me.

I agree. His push and instruction is what helped me post my comments against .xxx

Just happy to see it shut down... for now.

I am glad that things are in favor with us.

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Originally Posted by Mike33

Is this the last we're going to hear of .XXX for a long time?

yes, i believe it is finally dead. All of those 600 posts by webmasters and the letters from companies like Hustler and Private, helped to prove that the .XXX TLD Application was flawed.

One of the reasons that was cited in various news stories, was basically that the Sponsored TLD community (ie. the adult industry), did not want the TLD, and since the community didn't want it, it had to be voted down.

This should have been nailed down 2 years in the first public comment period, and i did post up about it to get people to write in, but everyone seemed to have just let it slide by.

Fortunately this time, webmasters did step up, and i truly believe that it made a difference.. including the last minute email exchanges i had with the chairman of ICANN to point out that the adult community does not want .XXX, no matter what ICM Registry claimed, and that the prove is on the ICANN message board and in the letters that FSC submitted to them.

It has been a long 3 years of me ringing the bell to help webmasters focus on important issues: Acacia, 2257, .XXX

These are big subjects with big impacts upon your business.

2257 is stil here, and congress approved the changes from Ashcroft that included secondary producers to have records. Fortunately the FSC is already in litigation over 2257.

Acacia case is still going on, but they are losing.

For those that joined FSC last year over the 2257 issue, I ask that you continue your financial support of FSC. Lawyers and lobbyists are expensive, and FSC is looking after your business interests.

A new disturbing issue is over "net neutrality". Cable and DSL providers want to charge websites a fee to allow surfers to reach them.

Let me explain it a different way, because it truly is baffling... right now, you can surf the internet at highspeeds on your DSL or cable. If congress passes the bill that allows your network provider to charge access fees, it means that if a website didn't pay their "access fee" (*cough* extortion *cough*), then access to that webste would be put in the "slow lane" where there is less bandwidth, and conceivable may not be able to reach the website if it is a popular website.

Those websites that paid the "access fee" would be in the "high speed lane" and its surfing as usual.

Websites that might be too small to afford the "access fee" might be lumped into the "slow lane" of access.

FSC is tracking this issue, and i am sure EFF as well.

An extrapolation of this bill, is that your broadband carrier can place a "tax" on porn sites in addition to filtering. They may have their own "approved porn websites" that paid big money to be on, and exclude others.

This bill is quite disturbing and more so if congress passes it. It would be nice if FCC could step in to this, so we'll see what happens.

thanks to all that stepped up and expressed themselves. a shameful finger wagging to those that didn't, and given the fact that .XXX is now over, that those that didn't step up due to fear of what those that supported .XXX might do to their business, will realize that it is better to stick to your beliefs, then to worry about the loss of a dollar.

There are plenty of other biz deals that can be made with companies that did stand up (ie http://www.FightTheDotXXX.com) that don't compromise your personal integrity, ideals, and beliefs.

Fight the sidelines!

"Financial Times" article on .XXX

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Dispute over porn domain name veto
By Richard Waters in San Francisco
Published: May 12 2006 00:03 | Last updated: May 12 2006 00:03

An international row broke out on Thursday over alleged US interference in the internet?s core addressing system after a proposal to set up a domain for pornographic material was formally rejected.

The board of ICANN, the international body that oversees the ?root? system that lets a user connect to information on a server held anywhere else in the world, voted late on Wednesday to reject a proposal to create a new domain, which would have carried the suffix .XXX.

Last year, political pressure from the US contributed to ICANN delaying a decision on whether to adopt the porn domain, prompting international accusations that the US had used its veto power over ICANN?s decisions to influence the debate.

At its first formal vote on the issue this week, board members of the agency voted by nine to five to reject the plan for the .XXX domain, which had been put forward by ICM Registry, a US internet registry.

?We see here a clear case of political interference in ICANN,? a spokesman for Viviane Reding, the European Union?s information society and media commissioner, said. ?It?s a worrying development that the US administration has interfered in this process.?

However, Paul Twomey, chairman of ICANN, rejected the accusation as ?completely ill-founded and ignorant.?

The spectre of interference in the internet?s core addressing system was a key issue in the European Comission?s campaign last year to wrest control of the system from the US. The attempt was rejected late last year, though simmering unhappiness with the agency, for instance over its slowness in introducing non-English language addresses, has persisted.

Speaking on Thursday, Mr Twomey said that a number of countries other than the US had lodged their own criticisms of the pornography plan. These include the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Brazil and Australia, he added.

The governments, along with ICANN?s board members, had expressed a number of different reservations about the plan, Mr Twomey said. These included a concern that, if ICM was unable to regulate the domain as it promised, ICANN might find itself acting as an international policeman for content on the internet.

?It increasingly raised the question of [whether] ICANN was itself now going to be expected to be the enforcer of every jurisdiction?s view of content,? he said.

The plan for a separate address on the Web also drew criticism from some parts of the pornography industry.

?Their concern was that people would be forced into that [domain] and it would be a mechanism for censorship,? said Mr Twomey.

While the vote marks the first time the long-running .XXX debate has come to a decisive stage, ICM still has the right of appeal over ICANN?s decision.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/91eab4dc-e1...0779e2340.html

Great write-up by Connor over the .XXX TLD:

http://www.ynot.com/modules.php?op=m...le &sid=10497

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