anandtech.xxx

[Siddhartha]

AnandTech has a XXX section? Someone please provide a link!!!!

 

[rudder]

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.

What is being censored?

What first amendment rights are being trampled?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-...eene-mystery-south-carolina-senate-candidate/

Last time I checked, the 1st amendment did not give me the right to show people porn.

And who is the 'they' that will easily block porn? I would block it from entering my home network. If I did want porn and my ISP blocked it, I would simply take my business elsewhere. ISP's are smarter than that. Do you mean the government? They don't need .xxx domains to block porn if they wanted to.

 

[rudder]

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

That may be. Actually the real reason behind this is the company managing the .xxx domain will make a ton of money of new registrations.

America will never block porn.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For the cannot live in a country where virtue and knowledge prevail. - John Adams

 

[rudder]

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.

First off ... where in your warped mind do you conclude that a push to get porn websiteson a .xxx domain = anti-sex?

pornography /= sex

Yes it depicts sex acts... but if that is what you think sex is... I feel very sorry for you as a person and actually puts a lot of what you write here on P&N in a new context.

If you are trying to paint this is a right-wing social conservative movement... you are sadly mistaken. Actually the new testament encourages healthy sexual relationships. It discourages adultery of course. Now many christian denominations choose to relate anti-adultery to being anti-sex but I can't control that. I have kids. I like the idea. If I were anti-sex... I guess I would not have to worry about my kids coming across porn when they are 6 years old now would I?

 

[Modelworks]

The problem with most of the domains is they are not enforced. There is nothing to force adult sites to the .xxx domain.

Very few domains have any controls. Even well intentioned domains like .kids.us run into problems because if they control it too much then it scares away things like advertisers which many sites use for revenue.

They are hoping it will encourage adult sites to use .xxx but most will not because they know it makes it too easy to filter, and that cost them customers.

 

[shortylickens]

The problem with most of the domains is they are not enforced. There is nothing to force adult sites to the .xxx domain.

 

[Kirby]

i really hope they don't do this. i'd have to update all my bookmarks.

 

[Craig234]

First off ... where in your warped mind do you conclude that a push to get porn websiteson a .xxx domain = anti-sex?

pornography /= sex

Yes it depicts sex acts... but if that is what you think sex is... I feel very sorry for you as a person and actually puts a lot of what you write here on P&N in a new context.

If you are trying to paint this is a right-wing social conservative movement... you are sadly mistaken. Actually the new testament encourages healthy sexual relationships. It discourages adultery of course. Now many christian denominations choose to relate anti-adultery to being anti-sex but I can't control that. I have kids. I like the idea. If I were anti-sex... I guess I would not have to worry about my kids coming across porn when they are 6 years old now would I?

You want to pretend none of the politics around this issue are there, and pretend you're a pollyana asking a question and want me to waste time spelling it out? No thanks.

You want to play word games around the word sex and anti-sex and have a pointless pedantic exchange for no reason? No thanks.

You want to say something useful on the issue? Apparently you don't.

 

[rudder]

You want to pretend none of the politics around this issue are there, and pretend you're a pollyana asking a question and want me to waste time spelling it out? No thanks.

You want to play word games around the word sex and anti-sex and have a pointless pedantic exchange for no reason? No thanks.

You want to say something useful on the issue? Apparently you don't.

Apparently I do and apparently I hit the nail on the head, judging by your response. On the other hand, "some religious groups are against the creation of the domain, as it would lend more legitimacy to the adult entertainment industry," he wrote.

http://www.icmregistry.com/

Just a guy running a company trying to make $10/year off each .xxx registration.