Re: [ga] Pressure Mounts On ICANN To Approve .xxx Domain

[Matthew Pemble <matthew@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks,

On 6 May 2010 20:23, Jeffrey A. Williams <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> All,
>
>  If this bit of news wasn't so tragic is would be humorous.
> Frankly a better argument in favor of .xxx would be based
> on discrimination or repressing expression/speach.  I personally
> am against promoting in any way, porn on the Internet.  .xxx
> will not help one bit in supressing porn on the Internet as
> ccTLD's and other gTLD's such as .biz, .info, .net, .com, .org,
> all already have a huge number of domain names registered that
> provide various types of porn.  so parents simply blocking .xxx
> domain names will do little, if anything at all in preventing
> their children from viewing porn.  Yet I can also see how ICANN
> is kind of "up against it" as it were, with this delema. Dammed
> if they approve it, and dammed if they don't.  But will $$ trump
> principal or which principal has superior consideration?
>

I agree with Jeff's argument entirely - I just wonder about 'principle' as
opposed to 'fairness' and Hugh's 'prurience' - porn is with us, regardless.

M.


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