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Old 03-09-2007, 04:44 PM   #1
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Why .XXX Will Not Be The Downfall Of Many In The Adult Biz One Day

-this needs revisiting- timeline last year sometime


i published this little gem of wisdom the first time we got .XXX canned on the boards and in a industry rag or two i believe, but i think it needs revisiting based on the fact that .XXX is back. the wicked witch is not dead. i still don?t see the level of unity that we need to see to become a unified force to deal with. one day we are going to learn a tough lesson the hard way. i wrote this on the day that we found that icann had denied the creation of .xxx the first time.

-from that article -

i really care about this industry and a lot of the people in it. we got lucky today. nothing more nothing less. if anyone thinks icann spared the ?poor pornographers? i would seriously reconsider that thought. they are a business too, and .xxx stood to put an assload of money in there pockets. i am sure that their reasons for not voting it in are not the ones that many of you may be thinking. i don?t say this to insult anyone?s intelligence, but i do feel that unless you have followed this for a long time, you may not understand the nastiness that this would have caused on many different levels.

i hope this serves as a wake up call to the adult industry as a whole to start taking the industry as a whole more serious. this could have very easily gone the other way. the time is now to support these organizations that go to bat for this business, act like professionals, and push through the TLDs that ?we? know will stop kids from accessing adult materials as best as possible.

we do in fact peddle immoral goods in the eyes of millions of americans and the governments that ?protect? those people. however, many other industries are also peddling ?immoral? and in fact extremely devastating products that affect the daily lives of americans for the negative. let?s talk about gun manufacturers, cigarette companies, alcohol companies, and drug companies, just to shave a sliver off the type of companies that push ?questionable? materials to all the poor innocent americans.

all of these industries are represented at the government level and lobby hard to make things happen in their favor.

it is a known fact that cigarettes kill millions every year, disrupting families and damaging happy american dreamer?s lives every day.

guns are responsible for many deaths each year, yet still are poured on to the streets in ridiculous numbers. All legally, and under the limitations of the law, but only barely.

how many people die from paxil, vioxx, and god only knows how many other drugs that are advertised to people on prime time t.v. every night? All legally, and under the limitations of the law, but only barely.

alcohol companies market under the radar to young people under the guise of crafty marketing campaigns and nifty, chic ads designed to subliminally entice them into the products. All legally, and under the limitations of the law, but only barely.

porn does in fact break up marriages, cause some people to become sex addicts, possibly influence young people to have sex more frivolously, but in my opinion, and the opinion of many others, does not do the damage that many of these ?represented? industries of vice and destruction.

these other industries work on the fringe of ?immoral and questionable? just as we do, but they do it by the government?s rules.

our industry has problems uniting. until we get over that, there will always be another .xxx, another law, another acacia, and blah blah blah.

i can get into a ridiculously lengthy editorial on why i think what i think from a ton of different perspectives, but i won?t. i guess my main point out of all of this is this industry is so ?me me me? that everyone risks everything they have more regularly than makes me comfortable, because many of us can say ?us?.

that?s all. I am extremely relieved. this could have easily been the beginning of a very long and trying period as .xxx would have been the roller coaster ride to hell in so many ways.

congrats people, but like baddog said, ?well, doubt she(.xxx) is dead, but hospitalized anyway?.

be well everyone. we dodged a bullet.



This bitch is still alive. Let's kill it dead!

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Old 03-09-2007, 04:48 PM   #2
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Well spoken...





So.. will you be running for office anywhere soon


You should write political speeches
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Old 03-09-2007, 04:56 PM   #3
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Well spoken...





So.. will you be running for office anywhere soon


You should write political speeches



i think i'm the last person that should be representing us, i just keep shooting my mouth off, cheerleading, hoping someone will listen.

do ya need a speech written? i'll do it cheap
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Old 03-09-2007, 05:00 PM   #4
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anyone got links to the results of the meeting/vote?
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Old 03-09-2007, 05:02 PM   #5
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anyone got links to the results of the meeting/vote?
i havent seen anything as of yet.
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Old 03-09-2007, 05:14 PM   #6
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I had heard that they won't be voting on this until the 12th. Is that true? Anyone know for sure when the vote will take place?
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Old 03-09-2007, 05:40 PM   #7
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The next ICANN board meeting is scheduled for this coming Monday, March 13. Among the items on the proposed agenda is "Continuation of Consideration of Proposed .XXX Registry Agreement "

I take that to mean they are going to discuss .xxx further, but not necessarily vote on the proposal/contract again at this meeting.

My source for this is the ICANN 2007 board meetings schedule published here.

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