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Mark Kernes on why .xxx is bad for adult entertainment industry [fs]
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:47:25 -0500
[Jason Hendeles is involved with the current application for .xxx, which I wrote about here (http://news.com.com/2010-1026-5176611.html). --Declan]
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Politech] Weekly column: the battle over .xxx [fs] Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:03:24 EST From: MarkKernes () aol com To: declan () well com In a message dated 3/23/04 1:17:18 AM, declan () well com writes: << By the end of this year, Internet users could have an extraordinarily convenient place to find pornography: a new .xxx top-level domain. >>A guy named Jason Hendeles approached the Free Speech Coalition (the trade association of the adult entertainment industry) last year to support his own plan for a .xxx TLD; he even offered to cut us in with a seat on the domain's governing board and a ($) piece of each application. We rejected the idea, since it will *inevitably* lead to ghettoization of not only hardcore sites, but everything currently in question under the COPA case. Filters exist; let those worried about porn use them!
Mark Kernes, AVN "Some play the game. Some go home." — Greta (Meg Foster), Carny _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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