New Domains
One of the things I didn't really expect when I started blogging was the near flood of press releases I would get from across the political spectrum. One I got this morning was called "NEW PROPOSED .XXX WEB DOMAIN LEGITIMIZES SMUT." I had a couple of thoughts reading this release:
- Um, pornography is legal. I say that only because the whole press release is written in a tone that implies terrorism or serial killing is being facilitated. In addition to being legal, it is also a very large business on the web and frankly has been an innovator in many areas of e-commerce. One may find the business unsavory or distasteful, but it is still a legal enterprise.
- I would think that encouraging a separate domain extension for hard core pornography would be something that pornography's opponents would support, sort of like getting the adult film store out of the suburban mall and into the red light district. I find that internet filter software (which I have on my kids accounts) works pretty well, but I am pretty sure that filtering out an entire domain extension would be a layup.
Comments closed to avoid the inevitable flood of spam porn links.
