anandtech.xxx

[rudder]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/06/25/internet-red-light-district-xxx/

Personally I like the idea. As a father of young children... even using opendns.com, and local filters, porn can still find its way into my network. People will complain about censorship but what is being censored? Seems to me it will allow filters to work better.

Of course whether it ever actually happens is a big if. This has been in the works for a long time. Even if it did companies would have to voluntarily drop their .coms for .xxx's. Which I don't see happening. If the government starts forcing companies into the .xxx domains... then I think we will see lawsuits flying... plus how can you apply it to international companies.

Overall a cool idea... but see it ending up with the same results. The company behind the main push now clearly has $ signs on the brain.

 

[Lemon law]

Rudder, I have just one question, what does anything you say have anything to do with anandtech.xxx?

Its your thread title, so its your job to defend the thread title.

 

[shortylickens]

They wanted to do this 15 years ago. The internet was much smaller back then and it still didnt happen, but of course we live in much more Orwellian times now, so maybe it could happen.
I see this as another government intervention that wont actually make people safer, but will cost them some freedoms. And they will thank Big Brother for doing it.

 

[Lanyap]

Rudder, I have just one question, what does anything you say have anything to do with anandtech.xxx?

Its your thread title, so its your job to defend the thread title.

He's advertising because he has that DNS now and is getting ready to open a pr0n shop.

 

[Lemon law]

IN MHO, its an anand tech owner decision to jump on or not jump on any future .xxx option. But as a present anand tech member, I find it somewhat offensive to claim or even imply this very forum would decide to have a xxx suffix.

No one ever said anandtech was perfect, but in so doing anandtech hosts quite a few different subject areas and hosts many happy posters. I may spend most of my time on P&N, but I have greatly profited by having some of my tech questions answered. In short, anandtech has almost nothing to do about porn.

 

[Elfear]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/06/25/internet-red-light-district-xxx/

Personally I like the idea. As a father of young children... even using opendns.com, and local filters, porn can still find its way into my network. People will complain about censorship but what is being censored? Seems to me it will allow filters to work better.

Of course whether it ever actually happens is a big if. This has been in the works for a long time. Even if it did companies would have to voluntarily drop their .coms for .xxx's. Which I don't see happening. If the government starts forcing companies into the .xxx domains... then I think we will see lawsuits flying... plus how can you apply it to international companies.

Overall a cool idea... but see it ending up with the same results. The company behind the main push now clearly has $ signs on the brain.

I like the idea. Much easier to filter out the .xxx domain than the smorgasbord of sites out there now.

 

[Lanyap]

IN MHO, its an anand tech owner decision to jump on or not jump on any future .xxx option. But as a present anand tech member, I find it somewhat offensive to claim or even imply this very forum would decide to have a xxx suffix.

No one ever said anandtech was perfect, but in so doing anandtech hosts quite a few different subject areas and hosts many happy posters. I may spend most of my time on P&N, but I have greatly profited by having some of my tech questions answered. In short, anandtech has almost nothing to do about porn.

Lighten up , LL. I was joking and I don't think rudder was trying to imply what you are thinking.

 

[nick1985]

Lighten up , LL. I was joking and I don't think rudder was trying to imply what you are thinking.

I wonder how this guy acts in real life

 

[rudder]

Rudder, I have just one question, what does anything you say have anything to do with anandtech.xxx?

Its your thread title, so its your job to defend the thread title.

wtf you talking about willis? Thread titles don't have to be 'defended.' No, anandtech.xxx does not have anything to do with the subject. You see, occasionally people may decide against a hard edged title. Rather they decide to use something like anandtech.xxx which is simply in reference to the subject (that a .xxx top level domain is again being considered). I do apologize, I will dumb down my titles in the future.

 

[rudder]

IN MHO, its an anand tech owner decision to jump on or not jump on any future .xxx option. But as a present anand tech member, I find it somewhat offensive to claim or even imply this very forum would decide to have a xxx suffix.

No one ever said anandtech was perfect, but in so doing anandtech hosts quite a few different subject areas and hosts many happy posters. I may spend most of my time on P&N, but I have greatly profited by having some of my tech questions answered. In short, anandtech has almost nothing to do about porn.

Anandtech has nothing to do with porn?!?!?!? You mean to tell me that this a tech based website? I don't believe you. Can I say it? It is late... no one will notice... here goes... no shit sherlock.

And I though I spent too much time on this forum.

 

[tommo123]

real reason for this? everything in time to do with porn will have a .xxx domain and australia will be the first to block it, then the rest will follow suit to appease the 'won't someone please think of the children' crowd/cretins

 

[khon]

This is just another attempt at censurship, 1st amendment rights be damned. They want all the porn under the .xxx domain, so that they can easily block all of it.

 

[BoberFett]

I wonder how this guy acts in real life

I'm sure he's a crying little bitch.

 

[cubby1223]

This is just another attempt at censurship, 1st amendment rights be damned. They want all the porn under the .xxx domain, so that they can easily block all of it.

Do you even know what a domain name actually is? Do you know how the internet actually works?

 

[cKGunslinger]

This is just another attempt at censurship, 1st amendment rights be damned. They want all the porn under the .xxx domain, so that they can easily block all of it.

Do you have any idea what the 1st amendment even is?

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

IN MHO, its an anand tech owner decision to jump on or not jump on any future .xxx option. But as a present anand tech member, I find it somewhat offensive to claim or even imply this very forum would decide to have a xxx suffix.

No one ever said anandtech was perfect, but in so doing anandtech hosts quite a few different subject areas and hosts many happy posters. I may spend most of my time on P&N, but I have greatly profited by having some of my tech questions answered. In short, anandtech has almost nothing to do about porn.

You got some sand in your cooch, sport.

 

[Supersonic64]

porn.xxx

 

[Lanyap]

real reason for this? everything in time to do with porn will have a .xxx domain and australia will be the first to block it, then the rest will follow suit to appease the 'won't someone please think of the children' crowd/cretins

I'm sure the porn folks are ready for that one and will find a way around it. They will go back to .com, .net, etc. to bypass such filtering.

 

[1prophet]

A day late and a dollar short as the saying goes,

Believe it or not one of the main reasons the xxx domain wasn't adopted long ago was due to pressure from the religious right which has turned out to be one of their biggest blunders in their fight against pornography.

If they paid attention to history on similar issues they might not have been so opposed to it, such as in the case of strip clubs and adult book stores.

Many municipalities have found out the hard way they couldn't ban adult bookstores or strip-clubs due to 1st amendment issues, but what they were able to do is decide where the store or club could operate at and usually zoned them at the outskirts of the city or in industrial parks.

Likewise a xxx domain could have been used the same way when the Internet was in its infancy zoning pornography while avoiding legal 1st amendment issues of censorship, as its stands now it will be just a token gesture with little if any effect.

 

[JEDIYoda]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/06/25/internet-red-light-district-xxx/

Personally I like the idea. As a father of young children... even using opendns.com, and local filters, porn can still find its way into my network. People will complain about censorship but what is being censored? Seems to me it will allow filters to work better.

Of course whether it ever actually happens is a big if. This has been in the works for a long time. Even if it did companies would have to voluntarily drop their .coms for .xxx's. Which I don't see happening. If the government starts forcing companies into the .xxx domains... then I think we will see lawsuits flying... plus how can you apply it to international companies.

Overall a cool idea... but see it ending up with the same results. The company behind the main push now clearly has $ signs on the brain.

rofl@rudder!!

Should be http://www.rudders_mind.xxx

 

[Craig234]

There might be an analogy between segregating sex sites and future actions about them, and the gun nuts paranoia about 'first they register all the guns, then...'

This does smack of some of the cultural prejudice on sex - so sites with violence have no special treatment like sex sites, just as in tv and movies.

It seems to sort of pander to the anti-sex media political people, letting them 'strike out' somehow, to shun and say 'you don't belong with other sites' with a stigma.

As a practical issue, there are questions what happens for punishment if a site strays out of xxx, where the line is drawn (just as with magazines that have small incremental moves from glamour mags to bikini mags like SI swimsuit to barely clothed byt racy like Maxim to topless to airbrushed nudity to explicit nudity to 'sex acts almost shown' to explicit sex to extremes (bondage, fantasized rape etc.) Where exactly is the line?

I'd say 'no' to this to prevent problematic enforcement and acts against freedom of such material, to not pander to the anti-sex right.

But it probably has a big political market in the anti-sex crowd - see the poster above, praising it because he has kids, and that makes it likely to get pushed.

 

[Acanthus]

porn.xxx

*quickly registers youporn.xxx porntube.xxx playboy.xxx hustler.xxx*

 

[Fox5]

The XXX domain should be voluntary, but I think it's a good idea to have. It would basically be a giant list of websites to be autoblocked by web filters right? Well, let porn sites (and anyone else who wants to be autoblocked) sign up for it if they want to do so.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

IN MHO, its an anand tech owner decision to jump on or not jump on any future .xxx option. But as a present anand tech member, I find it somewhat offensive to claim or even imply this very forum would decide to have a xxx suffix.

No one ever said anandtech was perfect, but in so doing anandtech hosts quite a few different subject areas and hosts many happy posters. I may spend most of my time on P&N, but I have greatly profited by having some of my tech questions answered. In short, anandtech has almost nothing to do about porn.

You should be permbanned for dumbassery.

 

[piasabird]

I say go ahead and create the *.xxx domains and see how many adult sites will volunteer to migrate to the domains ending in ".xxx". Just make it voluntary and see how it works out.