The Internet’s key oversight agency has revived a proposal it earlier rejected to create an online red-light district, after adding stronger provisions to prohibit child pornography and require labeling of Web sites with sexually explicit materials.
The use of the proposed “.xxx” domain name would remain voluntary, but any porn sites that choose to use it instead of the more popular “.com” would be subject to the new terms issued late Friday by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
I don’t get it…
All of the proposed protections seem to be on use of .xxx domains, leaving the sludge in .com (and other top-level domains) untouched. So why would anyone subject themselves to the new rules when the previous path to publishing pornography (otherwise known as the “PPPP”) is still available and is much easier?
Can of worms, here
Let’s keep it firmly in mind that a number of “anti-porn” advocates don’t want access to pornography controlled, they want to stamp out it out entirely, and they define pornography as anything have to do with human sexuality by which they are personally offended. This includes honest sex-ed materials, birth control information, speech that fails to utterly condemn abortion, Michaelangelo’s David on several occasions, and on at least one occasion: Where’s Waldo.
Secondly: How Do You Fucking Well Define Pornography In The First Place?! By what objective, scientific parameters do you determine that one piece is porn and the one next to it is not?
Artisitic nudes, such as those posted at Domai.com are not pornographic, and those that could be defined as indecent by the U.S. Supreme Court criteria, are still only indecent and not pornographic. Since the photos there almost invariably feature breasts — which are not sexual organs — you can just bet that every screaming, foaming-at-the-brain, ultra-right wing lunatic will be showering shit and derision in all directions when the site owner does not move over to the .xxx domain.
Re:Can of worms, here …it enters their eyes and the images of intertwined penises and breasts and vagina’s and anal cavities rips their heart like a; dagger of throbbing gristle.. They cannot get over it . They are compelled to be involved. It takes over their life. It is an addiction.
What you have to keep in mind is that the anti porn activists are consumed with thoughts of pornography like a porn addict. It is like the contents of that can of worms you refer to
It is a mistake to apply reason and logic to an addictive personality.. Think Satin.
ps…do you know where Waldo was those times you couldn’t find him. I do and it isn’t pretty…not pretty at all.
If it were not for porn…
If it were not for porn you would be paying $400+ for monthly broadband. Porn paid for the internet. ( I wrote that paper in library school and got an A) [Of course everybody gets an A in library school].
Re:If it were not for porn…
Interesting. How exactly did porn pay for the internet? Not the entire paper please…
Re:If it were not for porn…
I, on the other hand, would be very interested in reading the entire paper. Is it posted somewhere online?
Re:If it were not for porn…
The infrastructure needed to sell subscriptions to porn sites was initally not available. Few things can actually be sold online that require no physical delivery, one of the first and most notorious was porn. You don’t have to deliver a box of dirty pictures to someone you can simply send them the images over a wire, however that wire really couldn’t support all those who wanted dirty pictures so the wires had to grow into broadband pipes.
As the demand for porn went up, the infrastructure needed to carry it was built and paid for by the porn peddlers using money from the born buyers. It was a natural evolution. It was also a match made in heaven, as now you could get any odd thing you wanted without letting the neighborhood know you wanted it. Interested in French Maid outfits, or big boobies (cf. the boobies discussion elsewhere on LISNews) you can simply download it rather than going to the local dirty bookstore. The internet offers a virtually unlimited inventory which caters to (almost) everyone’s particular taste and instant delivery.
Sure, now you can download music, movies and software because the infrastructure is robust enough because the money to build it out came from inital over-the-net sales and porn was a front runner in that business.
Re:If it were not for porn…
Nope not floating around on my hard drive anymore.