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US wants ICANN to delay .xxx | by Illiad | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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Look at this logic... | by VivianC | 2005-08-16 14:09:00 |
| It's a bad idea for other reasons, too. |
by Ravenlock |
2005-08-16 14:29:18 |
It won't do diddly to "protect kids" - kids have been seeing adult content without their parents' consent as long as their parents have had Playboys lying around the house (actually, far longer than that, but that's the classic American example), and it doesn't hurt most of them any more than it hurt me.
That isn't to say that there aren't things kids shouldn't see - I very much agree there are - but WHAT things a kid shouldn't see and how to protect them from it is the domain of the parents. A .xxx domain isn't going to accomplish that.
What it MIGHT accomplish, were it to become compulsory, is to give whoever dishes out that domain the ability to auto-censor material they don't like. The .xxx domain would almost certainly be filtered out of schools, libraries, etc. "A website about homosexuality? That's adult content. Put it in .xxx." And voila, your kids don't learn about gay people when you're not watching.
I'd consider such a statement paranoid, if parents weren't trying to get books that even mention homosexuality pulled from library shelves. Seeing as they are, though, a move that does little to accomplish its stated goal and provides an easy route to censorship through categorization sounds like a bad move to me. |
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Well, I can only hope... | by pyroteknix | 2005-08-16 14:32:15 |
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Heh. ;-) | by Ravenlock | 2005-08-16 15:05:47 |
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Did we agree twice in one day? | by VivianC | 2005-08-16 16:53:34 |
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