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Old 03-02-2007, 10:20 AM   #1
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:stop My Note to ICANN re .xxx (feel free to cut and paste)

.xxx is evil. It must be stopped.

Here is the letter I sent to ICANN today.

You should do the same (feel free to cut and paste!)

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To Whom It May Conern:

As the primary creator, owner, operator and editor of several large, free adult directories, including Booble.com and SirRodney.com, I have been in the online adult industry since January, 2003.

As the primary editor of 2,000 + sites in the Sir Rodney directory, I have personally visited the members areas of thousands of sites, which argueably makes me one of the world's leading experts in online pornography.

I have been following the debate over .xxx for some time, and appreciate this opportunity for my voice to be heard in the process.

The proposed .xxx domain will not protect children and families and will instead erode intellectual property rights, free speech and privacy. It will drive the adult business underground, and overseas, making it less safe, not more safe, for consumers. The result will a loss of jobs and tax revenues, as the business flees to more hospitable jurisdictions.

To elaborate:

1) I am here to tell you I have never seen a hint of pornography involving children, ever. Child pornographers operate in a dark netherworld far from the adult industry. By all accounts, they work Google and chat rooms on sites like AOL. They do not work in the adult industry. I always laugh when people say they stumbled upon it "by accident". Impossible. Unless you believe someone could type "child porn" into Google by accident. The adult industry is doing an unassailably great job of policing itself through the ASCAP guidelines. How good a job are the major search engines doing? Is there a provision for regulating them, because they point to more pornography than anyone else online.

Also, any one with a teenage boy will tell you that .xxx will create a virtual red light district that will attract minors, not keep them out. .XXX is one of those notions that makes for good tv news sound bytes, but is in actuality a total disaster for both businesses and consumers.

2) There is no provision to ensure that long time owners of .com domains will be able to protect and transfer those domains. Instead there is a provision for grievances that will be an administrative nightmare.

3) Governments would be able to suppress free speech on the grounds of "protecting children".

4) .XXX will spur adult businesses to re-locate to Eastern Europe and Central America, taking jobs and taxes with them to jurisdictions where they do not have to comply with existing laws.

5) Finally, who is to say which sites should be .xxx and which are ok to continue to operate as .com. Sir Rodney, for example, is largely text. There is no nudity whatsoever on the site. We do review and link to adult sites, just like Google and Yahoo. Would they be required to operate as a .xxx? Who is "the decider"? This seems to us a system built for exploitation and corruption and influence, not one that creates a fair regulatory environment.

.xxx is not in the public interest. It will be unmanageable, create a political football, impinge free speech, while failing to protect the most vulnerable among us.

For these reasons, I oppose .xxx, and urge you to reject it.

Sincerely,


Robert Smart
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Old 03-02-2007, 10:45 AM   #2
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great letter bravo
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Old 03-02-2007, 10:56 AM   #3
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grandiloquence there huh?
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Old 05-25-2007, 07:24 AM   #4
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I mostly agree with the third one. It?s a first step in installing a dictatorship. Whatever is imposed is not freedom at all and politicians have their way of hiding behind ?noble? reasons to make their will. I run some adult internet business as well and I say: ?Down with .xxx!?
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Old 05-25-2007, 07:26 AM   #5
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Old 05-25-2007, 07:35 AM   #6
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I think there should be a .kid or something like that and parents can set the computer to only allow .kid on the browser for a child user.
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Old 05-25-2007, 07:51 AM   #7
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I think there should be a .kid or something like that and parents can set the computer to only allow .kid on the browser for a child user.
Exactly, but the question is, who will have the right to use the .kid domains?
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Old 05-25-2007, 07:56 AM   #8
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make people or companies wanting to register them do a background check like any other company that wants to deal directly with children

like daycare workers and nannys
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Old 05-25-2007, 08:00 AM   #9
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any company that deals with children could simply domain mask their .com with a .kids and then any parent could restrict their children's usage to .kid

you don't let your children play in NYC or Washington DC alone or with no restrictions. why would you let them play on the internet along or without boundaries in cyberspace.

The internet is information and lots of it should not be accessible to children and I am not just talking about pornography
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Old 06-10-2007, 03:46 PM   #10
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I'm against child pornography too, and everybody seems to be too, but some people take this too far: I heard that American photo labs are arresting parents as child pornographers for taking pictures of their kids in the bath. Picture this: A photo of a boy and girl -- unmistakably naked, posed and giggling -- holding two very large sausages (Italian?). The boy is maybe 8, the girl maybe 6. They are not touching each another, nor does the camera seem especially interested in their genitals. Is this child pornography?
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Old 06-10-2007, 03:53 PM   #11
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large sausages (Italian?)
good grief ...
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