It does nothing to stop what you want, just makes the system more complicated and adds lots of potential for abuse in other ways.

Notice it isn't the industry pushing for it - it is the registry industry.

The only thing this would do: Generate more fees.

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I Am Trying to Believe - April 17th, 2007

IBM developing wiki how-to tool.

heh, they will just find someone who will pay them to build it, then charge them millions and then continue to sell it over and over while charging a service fee and it will "break" every 3.5 months so they have to have consultants on hand 24/7 to continue to bilk the customer month after month.

/yes I am sour that IBM has taken over so much in our organization. We outsourced wayyy to much to them. Bunch of idiots. It is as though they have never done any of this and are learning at our expense.

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I Am Trying to Believe - April 17th, 2007

The problem with the xxx domain is describing exactly what is porn. What some might consider porn others might not... The example just given by beaves leaves a lot open... so, penetration = xxx? How about a women dripping with goo? or spreading wide open so everyone can look at her intestines?

The recent problem with youtube pulling the breast exam videos as indecent is one quick example off the top of my head.

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I do not really see how having a xxx domain will help to any real extent.

It does not stop hardcore banners, spam and spyware that has some seriously nasty pictures. It does nothing to stop the crap people get in email.

It is that kind of crap that you do not want your kids to accidentally come across. And people that are willing to trick/misguide you to seeing that crap, do you really think they give a damn about .xxx domain?

I mean, yes it will prevent your kid from intentionally going to playboy.xxx, but if they have intentions of seeing that stuff and you want them not to, a special domain will not stop them.

You then have to involve government agencies. Say playboy.com does not want to change to playboy.xxx, what are you doing to , fine them? Jail the people in charge?

Not to mention, that it is trivial to make a .com/net/whatever site to load the info from a .xxx domain, and thus bypassing the regulations, as the information is on the .xxx domain being routed through a .com/net/whatever. So are you going to then start regulating how people can transfer data?

It does nothing to stop what you want, just makes the system more complicated and adds lots of potential for abuse in other ways.

It is better to either browse with your kids, limit them to only pre-approved sites, or teach them about porn and discipline them if they visit that kind of stuff. Those options might be the hard way, but the other is truthfully crap. Though, I do think there should be a .xxx domain (for more than just porn), but forcing people to use it will not stop what you want.


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I think the xxx domain is a good idea, their reasoning to not include it is that they don't want to regulate what is porn and what is not. This is simple; penetration = porn whether it is oral, ass, vaginal, ect. This includes objects and vegetables.
Naked people does not = porn. Naked people kissing not porn. "R" rated material is not porn.
Having a xxx domain would be easy to block if I so choose, giving me the power to regulate instead of the current porn industry.

Anyone with a child in thier house would understand.