Originally Posted by Naughty-Pages

BUT THEY ALREADY DO IT RIGHT NOW IN REAL LIFE!

In the real world they have zoning laws, laws that say what part of town is allowed to conduct business, laws that say what part of town a factory can be in, laws that say what is farm land, laws that say what is residential land, laws that say where adult business are permitted, etc..

Funny thing is, they tend to sometimes allow permission for some things like building a business or a residence on farm land, but NEVER allow an exception for adult businesses.

In this case, lets simplify things here: think of residences as .nets, retail outlets as .com's, farm land as .org's, and adult as .xxx and by current laws, you can probably build a house on a .org but most likely cannot put an adult business on one. If we are going by laws on the books in the USA concerning THE REAL WORLD, then it is possible that they could apply these rules to the Internet, because making .xxx takes us one step closer.

No one classifies the current zoning laws as "discrimination", in fact it could be an extremely strong precedence in a court case to move adult sites to .xxx. And what congressman is going to publicly oppose it??? Which guy up for election is gonna stand up and stop it?? They are not censoring it, they are just making the internet safer for children, you wouldn't want to hurt children would you? (That will be the argument that the extremists make, and no government official is going to stand up and argue against those extremists).

Now sure, you could say that the USA cannot make the entire world follow this.. but the problem is that world will follow... Credit card companies, merchant accounts, etc that are based in the USA would not process for adult sites that are not using .xxx, Webhosts based in the USA would not host adult sites that are not using .xxx, Domain registrars based in the USA would not allow adult sites that are not using .xxx.. and so on.. Because of those few reasons it would effectively kill off the majority of non .xxx adult sites. Sure there would be some foreign sites that have a foreign registrar and foreign webhost, but they probably would not be able to process credit cards, therefore they would only promote sponsor programs.. however the next step would be for the USA to say that Affiliate programs cannot allow sites with a non xxx tld to promote them.

If you do not think that is possible.. look at what happened to Gambling... Gambling is permitted all over the USA in specific areas, however they completely wiped it out on the Internet for the USA, if you owned a gambling site your host shut it down, google stopped your ads, etc.. Not saying they could ever eliminate adult sites, just saying that if that impact could be done with Gambling, it's not a far stretch to imagine that they could have some type of impact on Adult.

if you do not think that it .xxx brings us one step closer the disaster I describe above, then you simply have not looked at the big picture..