Construction of ICANN's Red Light District Put On Hold
from the no-porn-for-you dept
ICANN's plans to implement a .xxx domain are in limbo after their consideration was removed from the agenda of a meeting, with no word on when or if they'd be brought up again. There's been plenty of controversy since the plans were initially approved back in June (as there have been since it was devised years ago), and it's unclear just why it's been dropped. The official line is that ICANN's governmental advisory committee needs more time to review a 350-page report on .xxx that was released only this week, even though it was completed in August, but rumors say there was some high-level intervention from an EU commissioner, but the safer bet would be on pressure from the US government, whose conservative allies aren't happy with the idea of a porn-only domain. If the latter is true, it's certain to raise more questions about US government control of the Internet, and ICANN in particular.
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Legal places:
Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Norway (distribution is kind of unusual, internet is OK, buying in stores is not OK), Russia (unclear laws + lack of enforcement from Soviet era), Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States.
Illegal places: Indonesia (has problems with child rape, kidnapping, 'child sex rings', etc.), Malaysia (many similar problems but scaled down), Singapore (they also banned chewing gum).
An incomplete list at best, but most of the western world and over 1.5 billion people in Asia have said 'Yes' to pornography.
I think the only thing missing is for the prudes to start ranting about places that don't even have laws related to pornography because walking around in the nude is considered perfectly acceptable.
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This won't happen probably, but if we had an .xxx area for porn and mandated that all pornographic material within this country had to be moved therein by a certain time I think that'd be great. Anyone caught with pornographic material in a domain outside of .xxx would be prosecuted with some sort of public obscenity charge.
I'm just thinking out loud here...
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XXX domain would be a good thing
So I really think that putting the Porn industry on it's own domain would be a good thing. If it was all on a single domain, then it would make it easier for parents to block access. Those who wanted it could easily find it, and everyone would be happier.
The reason the conservative movement does not want to endorse this, is because it would give Porn a type of legitimacy. Most conservative leaders still believe that with the right combination of laws, they can eradicate porn entirely.
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Former, Latter.... It's all the Same
I think he meant "the latter" but hopefully us slashdotters can figure that out.
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Whoops. You're right. I fixed it for Carlo. Thanks for pointing it out.
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Conservatives against it???
I am against almost all forms of censorship, and I find the pornography industry to be offensive. I think that creation of the .xxx TLD has the best chance for allowing both views to be reconciled in some way. It allows those sites to continue existing (not censorship), and provides me with a more convient way of applying filters that keep my children off those sites (until they are able to hack my router).
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Cuz if we have this .xxx, but people continue to put porn on whatever other domain anyway, then you still have all the same issues you have now with filters that don't block half the junk, plus you have .xxx too.
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definition please
You say pornographic, I say artistic/
You say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to.
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