OK, before you start reading, be aware that what you're going to read might be controversial and/or be totally outside of the box. If you're an open minded person, you're welcome to continue reading, debating, discussing and arguing as much as you want. If you're terribly afraid that your values and visions might be shaken, this is a nice moment to stop reading.
I just was reading a post
here about the TGP2 experience, and I posted about some of the reasons it failed. Those of us who are of the "analytic" type got some good learning for the future and the rest is history. But it got me thinking about all the issues nowadays, how we predicted this 5-6 years earlier, how and why we failed, the "cartel" thing someone mentioned, the leverage and regulations I mentioned and so on. All aspects that, put together, have the solution written in the wall. At least IMHO.
The keywords here are LEVERAGE and REGULATION. Yes, there's absolutely not a single business activity that isn't internationally regulated from A to Z... but online business. Yes, there are some small regulations, mostly about domains, but not much more than that. All kind of crimes and felonies are "legal by default" since there's no legislation in contrary. And when one country decides to do something, offenders simply move away and continue doing what they were doing.
The good news for adult is that, for many reasons, it's way easier to regulate than most of online business. It just needs a common ground to go from. And no, I won't be so naive to think industry will auto-regulate: not only that is an impossible, but it's the certain sheer way to kill any kind of effort in practically no time.
So, let's say we create a lobby of some kind. Some kind of association that, unlike the existing ones, ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING. And this something is as simple as follows: get politicians to CENSOR PORN. Yes, you read it well: CENSOR PORN. That's all what that lobby needs to do. No special arrangements, no some kind of deal, just CENSOR PORN.
Outrageous, isn't it? Please continue before you suffer a stroke
The other part is that this or any other lobby creates a new TLD, which now is allowed. This new TLD has to be 100% non-profit and MANDATORY. Let's say the .abc TLD for shortening purposes. So, people owning the different main top level domains (.COM, .NET, .ORG) will bid for their .abc extension. Those having 2 or more top level extensions will automatically get the TLD. Price will be just less than 10 dollars and all profits go to UNICEF, Red Cross or whatever. At the same time, all countries will be invited to create the .abc.(region) domains to reflect their regional domains on the same basis.
By now, I'm sure most of you already got the point and what does this mean and how will this follow: .COM porn domains will redirect to .ABC. With just these you're solving several problems, being cybersquatting one of them (not the most important though).
Now, your beloved congressmen/women will be able to block porn on any free access domains and require that any kind of hardcore depiction requires a block of some kind. Whether you charge or not is at your sole decision and discretion, but people will need a credit card or ID or verifiable ID method of some sort.
Of course, it can be done without the domain thing, it's just an additional step for PR resources: the evil porn industry auto restricts itself and on top of that does more good than any other business in the world. Hard for any congressman looking for votes to say no to that gift.
So yes, there would be a time of adjustment, specially until this spreads across the globe, but in the end, it sets the parameter for online business (mainstream and adult) from here to who knows when: the free meal has ended. Now you have to PAY.
And yes, I know there are some issues to be solved, some of them I can foresee now and if asked I will try to answer them, I just tried to make it short and sweet and provide the wire frames of the idea without going very in depth
Hope you like it and join the discussion
VIVA LA REVOLUTION!
