I for one think this will be a great step forward, and should have been done a long time ago (makes filtering the trash so much easier). The only thing I see missing would be forcing all existing sites to move over, the bullshit trickery methods, ie… using typo’d domain names, names that a ‘normal’ person would key in to get somewhere whitehouse com and desktops com should NOT be porn. These donkey’s pulling this crud and then hiding behind the first admendment, either they have no children (we can only hope) or they have no morals what-so-ever. I have to ask myself about people that run these sites, do they allow their children to visit them? Too many times our boys would come running after hitting one of these sites so they’d not be hollered at later when the proxy server would email me who visited what site they shouldn’t have. Now move them all over to this .xxx so I can just turn off that first level domain.

From the AP:
NEW YORK - A red-light district tentatively cleared for construction on the Internet — the “.xxx” domain — is being billed by backers as giving the $12 billion online porn industry a great opportunity to clean up its act.
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A distinct online sector for the salacious, one with rules aimed at forbidding trickery, will reduce the chances of Internet users accidentally stumbling on porn sites, they argue. If only it were so simple:

Zoning in cyberspace has always been a daunting proposition, and participation in the porn domain will be voluntary. Critics wonder why “.xxx” got the OK at all when so many other proposals sit unaddressed, some for years.

Nearly five years after rejecting a similar proposal, the Internet’s key oversight body, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, voted 6-3 this month to proceed with “.xxx.”

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