Re: [ga] truth in domains law

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:25 p.m. 29/12/2005, kidsearch wrote:
> I never  knew about this law. Does everyone? My question is if they create 
> a .xxx name could they intend to use this law to say that any porn website 
> that is not in .xxx is in violation of it? I just don't put anything past 
> the government lately.
>
> <http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/truth.htm>http://www.cybertelecom.org/dns/truth.htm

It is a strange law, a feel-good measure to erect one more minute and 
ineffective barrier for the protection of minors from pornography.

From the text of the law it is not clear whether "misleading" is only the 
profiting from typos in the names for popular sites as in the case that 
went to court, or also names like candy-store.com or humpty-dumpty.com

If a "misleading DN", [say one such as finance.yahhoo.com] points to any 
other kind of site with objectionable content such as scams or frauds, 
political falsities, hate promulgation or bombmaking, it appears not to be 
covered by this law, in spite of the broad title.

It would need  different kind of laws  to corral content into chartered TLD's.


--Joop--

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