.xxx Its Your Ass...GFY Wake The F U C K Up!
 

yeah yeah yeah...you say Mike Hawk, i cant do anything about this ...or i dont want to do anything about this....wrong..you HAVE to do soemthing about this....wake up people, do you realize what will happen, this is not a good thing, take the simple actions to read and do what ever is needed...take action on behalf of your business. 2cents

Read from FSC:

Dear Free Speech Coalition Members,

Most likely you are aware of, and gravely concerned about, the renewed interest in creating a .XXX TDL. Last May, FSC successfully opposed an attempt by Stuart Lawley, and his company ICM, to have .XXX accepted and implemented by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). Mr. Lawley and his company stand to make millions from this deal?at the expense of the adult entertainment industry.

.XXX is a very bad idea because:
? It "ghettoizes" the industry, making adult entertainment an easy target for anti-industry extremists and government intrusion.

? It will add, unnecessarily, to the cost of doing business. At $60 per URL per year, the cost to a member could reach tens of thousands of dollars annually. Many in the adult entertainment industry will purchase and park addresses, realizing no benefit to this added expense. Finally, there will be countless battles for names, and the resulting arbitra! tion will be costly.

? If a .XXX domain becomes available, it is likely that the United States and other countries will try to make it mandatory and subject to trans-Internet filtering that could effectively eliminate much of the adult content currently available on the Web.

? The .XXX option could enable the industry's enemies to convert even a voluntary .XXX domain use into an effectively mandatory requirement by pressuring private parties, such as credit card processors, to require .XXX use and compliance. In this way, ICM through unchecked rule-making could "back door" all the governmental regulations that we have beaten back. If that happens the industry would not have its most potent weapon, the First Amendment to challenge ICM because ICM is not a governmental entity.

? The ambiguity with which ICM plans to establish its governing board is of grave concern as there exists strong potential for censorship, which is clearly not in the best interest o! f the industry or for ICANN.

At ICANN's last meeting, a number of board members expressed concern that .XXX did not the have support of the adult entertainment industry, this after public input submitted prior to that meeting and word of a contentious panel discussion which included Lawley at an XBIZ conference. Previously, the board relied solely on Lawley's assurance that he had the industry's support.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

1. It is imperative that ICANN hear from the industry in a BIG way! Please send an e-mail to ICANN and simply state "I am in the adult entertainment industry and I oppose .XXX". If you are a webmaster, state that you are a webmaster in your e-mail as well as how many websites you manage.
E-mail your comments to: [email protected]. Public comments can be viewed at: http://forum.icann.org/lists/xxx-icm-agreement/. Comments received on or before March 9, 2007 will be considered at the next scheduled Special Meeting of the ! ICANN Board.

2. FSC plans to send Executive Director Diane Duke and Board Chair Jeffrey Douglas to the next ICANN meeting in Lisbon, Portugal during the last week of March to ensure that the adult entertainment industry is represented. In order to help cover our costs in fighting this .XXX battle, we ask our members to contribute $60?the cost of the URL of one website for one year?to the Free Speech Coalition. Checks can be sent to the Free Speech Coalition PO Box 10480 Canoga Park, CA 91309. If you prefer to put your donation on a credit card,
contact Diane Duke at (818) 304-1712.

During February's XBIZ Conference panel discussion, Stuart Lawley said, "I have never, nor will I ever be, a part of the adult entertainment industry." Together, we will make sure that Stuart Lawley does not line his pockets?at our expense. Time is of the essence, please, contact ICANN with your statement in opposition to .XXX and send your donation to the Free Speech Coalition t! oday.

Sincerely,

Diane Duke
Free Speech Coalition Executive Director

how many letters should one person write? does it really do any good for the same companies to write the same letters every time?

Letter sent.

.XXX will effectively create a costly cocktail of free market censorship for the adult biz.

Fight this shit.

Email sent :thumbsup

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email sent as well.....let's fight this shit we do not need!!

I urge everyone to take 2 mins of their time and write email. It may be conclusively important when they make their decision!

BUMP!

Lightspeedcash is willing to put our money where our mouths are! I spoke to Diane Duke last week and contributed $2000 to send them to Lisbon to fight for our industry. I encourage everyone else to contribute to the fight!

Steve Lightspeed

This seems confusing to me. I would like to ask, what did these ICANN assholes do with the letters we already sent in? I will send another, maybe these dumb fucking assholes wont throw them away or what ever they did with them.

This is just a good sign that .xxx is going to cost, no matter what.


FUCK YOU STUART LAWLEY, you worthless peice of Rat Shit.....:321GFY :321GFY :321GFY

Email Sent

STOP! DO NOT GO TO THE NEXT THREAD ON GFY! GO DIRECTLY TO YOUR INBOX.
STEP 1: In the "To:" field cut and paste the following: [email protected]
STEP 2: In the "Subject:" field cut and paste the following "Opposed to .XXX" or "In Opposition To .XXX", or something similar!
STEP 3: Now in the body of the e-mail type a quick note stating that you are in opposition to .XXX and click the send button.

You are now ready to resume surfing GFY!

This is serious people, if you can't take the 2 minutes required to send off a quick e-mail to: [email protected] then maybe you shouldn't be here.

Very well said Mike.

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ICM Registry's .XXX application was changed significantly enough to get another vote out of ICANN so there is an all new public comment period on the revised application.

ICANN does not consider the previous oppositon from, 2000, 2005, etc. as far as their bureaucracy is concerned this will be voted on as if it were something new and they will only consider the NEW comments.

Seriously, someone pin a fucking XXX thread already. Either people aren't paying attention, are so complacent they don't care, or truly support this crap like that jackass Stuart claims. Are we in denial here? Do that many people really support it?

WRITE A FUCKING EMAIL!!!!

email sent

Mike i admire your push with this and suggest others follow your suggestions as posted. But in a post a few weeks ago you stated you knew who were pushing for xxx secretly yet you have named no names yet. So to me if anything those names being let out would help the cause :thumbsup

Just got the same email myself. Will do whatever it takes to get this shit knocked off. Writing out a mass mail to our webmasters now.

i have sent my email

Email Sent...No to .xxx

ever think that Adult.com/Playboy is FOR .xxx? Might explain why there's never been a pinned topic.....

Oh, and I sent in my email...AGAIN...

STEP 4: Wait for Auto-Response confirmation. (Check your SPAM bins folks)
STEP 5: Confirm your email by using BOTH confirmation tactics recommended by icann.org (BTW the link has a check box and button... make sure YES is checked before clicking through)

Hehe, seems these folks want us jumping through hoops. One can only imagine what their inbox looks like, especially if they didn't have these filters in place, no doubt.

Well the VP's I talked to at Playboy weren't for XXX, I don't know where the rest of the company stands though.

Common people! In order for .xxx to become a reality, one of the conditions the application must meet is that it have the support of the community for which it serves. It clearly doesn't, that much is clear. Stuart Lawley and his band of thieves can revise and rework the application as many times as they wish, but ultimately if the community is opposed to it, they have nothing! It will never pass ..that is, unless YOU fail to act!

Voice your opinion now! Don't let these weasels run away with your hard earned money! YOU'RE ABOUT TO BE SCREWED!!

Sent my email

email sent. i even used really big words. :thumbsup

I sent my email. We need to stop this.

Thank you all for your emails. Your concern is noted and ignored. The .XXX TLD will pass because we say so. Your input is appreciated.

Here's a copy of the email I sent:

Subject: Opposition to .XXX

I am firmly against the .xxx initiative.

I vote for a .child instead and parents with children can only surf those sites. I also vote for .church OR perhaps a .square, for those adults out there who don't like adult content. How about a .searchengine and force search engines to use that TLD? Now that I think about it, you can make lots of money by cornering every industry into their own little hole of the internet.

Regards,
HomeFry

I already opposed from Pretty Girls Cash.
I just emailed all my affiliates asking them to send in letters of opposition.

I am committed to fighting this.

I urge all webmasters big & small to send their letters of opposition.

Lastly, I really would like to know what Monikers position is on this?
I really feel that some heavy opposition from a registrar would go a long way on this, particularly one with deep roots within the industry it has served for so many years.. Their silence on this subject is bothersome to say the least.

What registrar do you think will be auctioning off the generic, rock solid highly desirable .XXX names?

fuck that idiot lawley.

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bump and sent

MODS please pin this thread already.

Email Sent.

*Bump it up*

Mods please Pin this thread.

The other people that need to wake the fuck up are those that 'claim' to know who the biggies are that are pushing for .xxx behind the scenes...

"Ooooo... I know who they are, but I won't tell.."

Total bullshit!!!

If you know, be a fucking man and let it out so these 'biggies' become not so big...

We're fighting blind not knowing who we are fighting against... other than Lawley..

Writing letters is one thing... Boycotting the Hell out the cowards could make just as big of a difference in the outcome...

sent Mr. Hawk.

Ditto :thumbsup

Fuck .xxx and every company that supports them

Fucking Bump Bump!!!!

your a honorable guy Steve, we will be sending a check for $100 tomorrow.

i will post if someone gives it all to me. i've offered several times. :2 cents:

Just sent a message in opposition. LOLOLOLO .... saw this on Comments page (http://forum.icann.org/lists/xxx-icm...sg00018.html):

"YES TO .XXX

* To: xxx-icm-agreement@xxxxxxxxx
* Subject: YES TO .XXX
* From: "Matthew Boyle" <ps23333@xxxxxxxxx>
* Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 02:09:10 +0000

I am a webmaster who wants .xxx because I hate Polish_Aristocrat.


yours, DarkJedi"

bump!! :)

Well said.....

and you are soo right...

You know i love ya buddy...speak your mind.....

What is even greater is know this....that guy reads these boards, how i know this is right after i posted up a thread a few weeks ago, a phone call came into someone that was mentioned in the post, and he quoted me in that thread....

So what is so great he reads this...and that makes me happy for him to know we dont like him or his bullshit ....go away Stuart...you lost once going to loose again.....

Way to go Steve Lightspeed!....you rock!

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Anyway, I just sent in my email.

email sent.

So mike what's your response on sheltering industry cats who greedily support this over the rest of us? Please let us know so we can add them to our Blacklist.

Aren't you aiding and abetting fugitives?

ANYONE who isn't sending in an email is supporting it, keep that in mind while you beat on your chests about boycotting and blacklists.