http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Internet%20Pornography
NEW YORK -- Acknowledging "unprecedented" opposition, the U.S. government has asked the Internet's key oversight agency to delay approval of a new ".xxx" domain name designed as a virtual red-light district.
Michael D. Gallagher, assistant secretary for communications and information at the Commerce Department, stopped short of urging its rejection, but he called on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to "ensure the best interests of the Internet community as a whole are fully considered."
The department received nearly 6,000 letters and e-mails expressing concerns about the impact of pornography on families and children and objecting to setting aside a domain suffix for it, he said.
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This falls into the if we can't see it, it doesn't exist category. Rather than move all porn to a unique domain name (that you could easily bock to protect little Suzie from having to see boobies) these folks would rather it be spread eagle all over the Internet. Little Jeff is writing a paper on the white house and decides to look it up and goes to WWW.Whitehouse.com and gets an eye full of information that would embarrass Heidi Fleiss. WWW.whitehouse.xxx would be a little harder to "accidentally run across."
The lengths the government will go to to (NOT) protect families is crazy. My morality is NOT the governments business. PORN is legal and if the government were smart - they'd tax the heck out of it. Imagine how much the Porn Lobby could bring to Washington. The parties would be amazing and a little taste of home for some of the Senators and Congressfolks.
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Oh, our tax dollars at work!
Because .xxx would in any event be voluntary, web users would be able to choose among unsavory offerings from whitehouse.com, whitehouse.xxx--and whitehouse.gov, for that matter.
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