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RE: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain
From: "David Schwartz" <davids () webmaster com>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 20:32:50 -0700
Why? If we can coral them in it and legislate to have no porn anywhere else than on .xxx ... should fix the issue for the prudes out there.
The major problem with this is that many other governments have "dangerous ideas" that they'd also like to be easily able to identify and isolate as well. If the United States gets to corral porn, why can't China corral Democracy? Why can't Russia corral advocates of "terrorism" (which some might consider independence). I think it would be an incredibly short-sighted policy on the part of the U.S. government to restrict the Internet in the hopes of controlling things like gambling and pornography. The precedent of government isolating "dangerous ideas" will be adopted by many other governments and we will have no sound ideological grounds to oppose. DS
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- MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain william(at)elan.net (May 11)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Alain Hebert (May 11)
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- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Alain Hebert (May 11)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Valdis . Kletnieks (May 11)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain william(at)elan.net (May 11)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Stephen Sprunk (May 11)
- RE: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain David Schwartz (May 11)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Jim Popovitch (May 11)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Fred Baker (May 11)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Jim Popovitch (May 11)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Martin Hannigan (May 11)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain David Ulevitch (May 11)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Fred Baker (May 12)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Doug Barton (May 12)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Alain Hebert (May 11)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain william(at)elan.net (May 12)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Michael . Dillon (May 12)
- Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain Steve Gibbard (May 12)