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ICANN Approves Adult 'XXX' Domains

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The board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved the creation of .xxx internet domains on Friday.

Some religious groups fear this gives pornography makers and users their own neighborhood on the internet thus legitimizing the content.

Applicants for the domain will have to go through a process designed to discourage criminality.

Diane Duke, executive director of the adult entertainment industry's Free Speech Coalition (FSC), said in a statement that ICANN has "disregarded overwhelming outpouring of opposition from the adult entertainment industry" and dismissed the "interests of free speech on the Internet."
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The fight over this issue has been going on for over a decade. I guess if the adult industry doesn't like it, it's a good thing.



ICANN approves .xxx top-level domain - Computerworld
 
Marshabar said:
The board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved the creation of .xxx internet domains on Friday.

Some religious groups fear this gives pornography makers and users their own neighborhood on the internet thus legitimizing the content.

Applicants for the domain will have to go through a process designed to discourage criminality.



The fight over this issue has been going on for over a decade. I guess if the adult industry doesn't like it, it's a good thing.



ICANN approves .xxx top-level domain - Computerworld
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Yeah, this doesn't mean anything at all. Porn sites can still get .com or .net domains and show nudity. A legitimate news blog could get an .xxx domain and show no nudity or pornographic content.

At the most, what will happen is that porn sites will put non-pornographic content on their .com and .net domains and use those as a gateway to their .xxx site, which will show pornographic content. But that's up to the individual sites and cannot be enforced.

Such a non-story.
 
Marshabar said:
The board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved the creation of .xxx internet domains on Friday.

Some religious groups fear this gives pornography makers and users their own neighborhood on the internet thus legitimizing the content.

Applicants for the domain will have to go through a process designed to discourage criminality.



The fight over this issue has been going on for over a decade. I guess if the adult industry doesn't like it, it's a good thing.



ICANN approves .xxx top-level domain - Computerworld
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Dangit, I wanted them to use ".cum"
 
shouldn't social conservatives like this?

Now they can block all .xxx domains and take a step towards blocking pornography (well, those domains that use .xxx), if they choose.

Weren't the domains originally supposed to actually mean something? Corporations were supposed to stick to .com, non-profits were supposed to have .org and so forth, I thought?
 
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Red Flag said:
shouldn't social conservatives like this?

Now they can block all .xxx domains and take a step towards blocking pornography (well, those domains that use .xxx), if they choose.

Weren't the domains originally supposed to actually mean something? Corporations were supposed to stick to .com, non-profits were supposed to have .org and so forth, I thought?
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Well, extreme social conservatives don't like this, because rather than make pornography safer and help prevent kids get access to it they instead go off the rails and try to eradicate it in it's entirety, which is absolutely unrealistic. Moderate social conservatives may favor it, however.
 
Marshabar said:
Some religious groups fear this gives pornography makers and users their own neighborhood on the internet thus legitimizing the content.
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Pornography currently occupies every corner of the Internet and is already legitimized by a permissive culture. The .XXX domain wouldn't give pornography its own neighborhood, it would give it a ghetto to which it would hopefully be confined.

Social conservatives who oppose this move should wake up and smell the latex. This is our best chance at containing the problem.
 
This move is about 10 years too late. It would have been useful back in the days when people were being unwittingly Rick-rolled by porn, but now porn is just too easy to block and this move is pretty much meaningless.
 
Why is pornography a problem?
 
The only reason this was done is so that ICANN will make more money selling the domains. Any popular site will probably buy the xxx domain of their name to prevent negative brand association. Existing porn sites will also buy their name to prevent their customers from being poached. The fools who think this has anything to with controlling pornography are just being played.
 
Marshabar said:
The board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved the creation of .xxx internet domains on Friday.

Some religious groups fear this gives pornography makers and users their own neighborhood on the internet thus legitimizing the content.

Applicants for the domain will have to go through a process designed to discourage criminality.



The fight over this issue has been going on for over a decade. I guess if the adult industry doesn't like it, it's a good thing.



ICANN approves .xxx top-level domain - Computerworld
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It's about time that they did this. I know they've been struggling to get .xxx approved and I'm glad that they finally did.
 
Viktyr Korimir said:
Pornography currently occupies every corner of the Internet and is already legitimized by a permissive culture. The .XXX domain wouldn't give pornography its own neighborhood, it would give it a ghetto to which it would hopefully be confined.

Social conservatives who oppose this move should wake up and smell the latex. This is our best chance at containing the problem.
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How exactly is it a problem?
 
spud_meister said:
It'll turn the kiddies into sexual deviants before they hit puberty, rather than letting puberty do the job for them.
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The only thing I'd say is negative about porn is that it gives people unrealistic expectations. A lot of the things portrayed in porn are from a male perspective. It's one thing to enjoy porn for the purposes of getting off or setting the mood when with your partner. However, one should definitely not model their own sex lives by the techniques they see portrayed in porn.
 
mikhail said:
Why is pornography a problem?
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Twenty-some years ago, if you wanted porn, you had to seek it out. Playboy was around, and Hustler, but they were behind the counter and you had to ask for them. The more extreme stuff could only be had at "adult stores" which usually kept a low profile and did not advertise, trying to avoid police attention.

In the past two decades of the Internet, it has become something you had to try to actively avoid, if you didn't want it in your house. It shows up in your email. If you aren't careful you'll hit a porn site by accident and sometimes they try to take over your computer and prevent you from navigating away from the site. You need Norton or other good security progs to keep this from happening. You have to choose between keeping your blocks so high that they might filter content you NEED to access (like women looking for info on mammography) vs keeping the porn out. If you have children, this is a substantial issue.

You don't want a 10-14yo seeing some of this crap, especially the more extreme and bizarrre fetish stuff. Obsession with porn, especially the more extreme forms, can lead to various sexual disfunctions and psychological problems, especially if that exposure begins at an early age. Also objectivification, unreasonable expectations, over-sexualization, etc.

Making all porn sites that portray actual sex acts have a .xxx domain name would help contain the problem, I hope.
 
Dr_Patrick said:
The only thing I'd say is negative about porn is that it gives people unrealistic expectations. A lot of the things portrayed in porn are from a male perspective. It's one thing to enjoy porn for the purposes of getting off or setting the mood when with your partner. However, one should definitely not model their own sex lives by the techniques they see portrayed in porn.
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Women have had unrealistic expectations since humans developed imagination, it's about time men even it up.:mrgreen:
 
What's the point? It seems like it would just make it easier to find porn.
 
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