Ubiquitous Porn: Alive on the Net -- PC Magazine's Op/Ed on the XXX domain extension
 

A snippet from yesterday's article:

"The idea behind .xxx is to put these porn folks into their own space where they can be somewhat controlled. The idea is not to make getting to porn easier. Getting to porn is easy enough now?even by accident. That's why the current structure is a threat to family values."

The author goes so far as to say that ICANN's decisoin to remove the XXX domain from their agenda "marks the beginning of the end for the Internet."

Sounds a little dramatic to me.

Full article here.

.KIDS is the answer



Fight the .XXX!

Don't forget .TEEN

Common sense approach is too obvious.

They have a forum(at the bottom of the article) on their site to discuss we should give them a earful

.KIDS to me is for that pre-pubscent ages 13 and under.. who are technical enough to get on the computer and the internet, but not as savvy to be bypassing parental controls,.....who could be exposed to some kind of "trauma" as the result of viewing material on the web.

14 - 18 ages seem to a little bit more sophisticated then when i was in that age group, and chances are, they are pretty savvy.. so if they want to find porn they will find it... and they will uinstall or work around any porn blocker that the parents put on. this "teen" group can be free to surf through the whole internet, rather than creating another age-grouping TLD.

The PCMag writer does seem ridiculous to even suggest that .XXX is going to save everyone from porn.

What's more ridiculous is the hypocrasy of those that lament against how bad or evil porn is, yet they have visited a strip club, watched a porn video, had sex without being married, had sex with someone other than your spouse, or jerked off.....

No one other than kids, priests (the ones that don't abuse children), virgins, or nuns should be offended by porn.

Having explicit images thrown right in people's (or children's faces) is not good.... and there are simple measures that some are doing to help out with tihs issue, by not putting any explicit images on the home page, and you have to click to get into the content, rather than it just showing up.

blocking of sidedoors and entry into a website due to SE linking, would be nice to see as well, since inadvertant exposure could be had by clicking on a SE result...

One of the rallying points for .XXX is that the a surfer could see the .XXX extension in the domain in the SE results and know not to click there if they didn't want to see adult content.

It's a very valid point and certainly one way to "label" a domain, but .XXX TLD has way too much baggage to be feasible.



Fight the blinders!

have you read any of the posts?...lol

"Censorship for all" seems to be the common theme there.