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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ
I understand were it could lead and like many, believed .XXX would go the way of Dot-Travel and other vanity domain extensions ie., wasted money. I do feel you've completely miss how vulnerable all in Adult are. Not just from what the Government might do, but from within this community.
As an opportunist I can easily see an angle that would be worth the risk or heavy investment. If I had Nathan type of money and wanted to break in Adult, why wouldn't I fund lobbyist in the States that lean heavily toward Community Standards issues and try to channel all porn into .XXX?
What most fail to understand is laws can also be passed on a State, county, and city level. A good pitch, lot's money in coffers, a re/election platform suggestion, plus an easy to understand control "option" to block .XXX and ban uncontrolled porn. The only risk is if the surfer would use the option, but I'd risk/bet that a healthy market share would NOT.
The concept is a simple bait and switch, the Local/State Gov's get to ride their feel good law as you eliminate your competition and make rapid advances in the growing Adult.XXX State level market share. If you can get one State to flip or an official elected into office many others will ride this concept themselves.
Sounds crazy? - Remember how many politicians jumped on the Assault rifle platform craze and got into office? As moviesqe as this may sound if I had $20 million and wanted to break into Adult in a big way, this would be it. Hell, I'd be deep South screaming, Jesus save me because I am sinner as I stuff massive amounts of money in that preacher/politicians pockets. Then I'd login to my .XXX Network using my Hail Satan password and tell the crew we're set and get ready.
Again, as crazy as this reads, it's far more feasible then all of you actually taking a stand together and stopping it. -walls or windmills
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Sure, anything could happen. To me if they passed some kind of local "ban" on any porn that is not on a .xxx that would be a free speech issue. since porn is protected free speech likely the national law would overrule the local law. More likely they would start going heavily after porn as obscenity on a local level, but those can be very expensive trials for a community to win and I think most communities, conservative or not, would not be happy to see their local reps spending all their tax dollars trying to jail porn site owners instead of doing things that actually help their community.
But as you said, anything could happen and if someone with deep pockets wanted to take this route they surly could. It would be a long term investment with no real guarantee of paying off in the end, but it could work.
I personally don't own any .coms that are so big and fantastic that I would really worry about buying the .xxx version. If the day came several years down the road that .xxx became mandatory I would go buy those domains I could and just redirect my sites
To me all of the "this could" or "this might" is nothing more more than propaganda that is born to help encourage people buy what they are selling. It is like selling fallout bunkers to people. They talk people into spending thousands of dollars for a shelter just in case the shit hits the fan. Never mind that you might not be able to make it to the shelter in time for it to be of use or that you may only have a enough food to last a few weeks or months and will likely die anyway, buying it makes them feel better about the "what if."