Breaking News: Mandatory .XXX Senate Bill Created
 

Not sure if this was posted here yet or not, but this is significant news:

https://www.ynot.com/modules.php?op=...rder=0&thold=0

OH christ.

I feel bad for that guy that paid 14 million bucks for sex.com

Hard to do since .xxx doesn't even exist. This will get thrown out in court if it passes.

Notice that folks, and dont forget it. :winkwink:

So Senator Baucus and Pryor, since you are saying that a .XXX extension should let people know that this is adult material, then that means those that have a .xxx domain will have safe harbor in the US, and won't be prosecuted for obscenity???

:1orglaugh

So by having .XXX and "legitimizing" pornography, you are essentially going to have more porn in the US, since those that went overseas can now come back to the US under a .XXX domain and take advantage of cheaper bandwidth and other logistical issues.


:thumbsup



Fight the unintended consequences!

for fucks sake

so xxx is NOT dead....

interesting...

So ok - does this mean it's set in stone now or still up in the air?

anybody wannt dp.xxx?

I got that shit pre-regged...

When will the day come that parents will get in trouble for what their kids are doing??

fuck

9chars

That bill will never fly.

Never. Society and human kind loves to blaim everyone else.

They think all pornsites are hosted and runned by americans? :D

Notice they are from MONTANA and ARKANSAS

2000 election

Arkansas
Bush 472,120 51%
Gore 420,424 45%

Montana
Bush 239,755 58%
Gore 137,264 34%

2004 election

Arkansas
Bush 572,898 54%
Kerry 469,953 45%


Montana
Bush 266,063 59%
Kerry 173,710 39%

democrats :)

Appearantly. I want to see the look on their faces if this passes and they type in http://thehun.net and they still see porn. WTF are they going to do then?

What a bunch of fucksticks.

the domain to get now is 'xxx.xxx' can ya imagine that one??? wow!!!

Some senators do understand that that laws like this one will only affect US-based websites, and that offshore ones will slip right on by... I think they really do understand that websites can move themselves offshore, but it's just a feel-good short-term solution that they are looking at.

Will any of these kinds of laws stop children from unwittingly seeing porn... not at all.. it only serves to further diminish the freedoms we have in the US.... oh wait, Patriot Act I and II.. i guess we are becoming the land-of-the-quasi-free.



Fight the irony!

?Pryor said he believes a separate domain on the Internet for pornography will help parents filter their children?s access to inappropriate materials,? states the press release on Pryor?s website."

That statement alone shows how ass backwards their thinking is.

So, they can still type in cnn.com and read about the recent pedo crackdown? Sex is EVERYWHERE in one form or another.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, if they were REALLY out to protect our children's interest, this wouldn't be an option. The ONLY option would be .kids. Then parents could filter out everything EXCEPT .kids and the only chance their kids would have of finding objectionable conduct, is someone who is INTENTIONALLY trying to show it to children.

:2 cents:

stupid law

So if you're not a us company, you can still use .com?

Oh god forbid you make big corporations have to have websites like nick.kids, cartoonnetwork.kids, disney.kids etc etc

Our government expects everyone to follow US law. Seriously they do.

This is just a political ploy by a couple Dems to appeal to conservatives. It will pass, there is no doubt about that.

?Senators Mark Pryor and Max Baucus (D-MT) today introduced legislation to require Web sites with adult content to have an .xxx domain that only adults can access,?

That would mean the end of free porn in the US if this goes through and the ACLU or the FSC are unable to have it struck down.

things usually take a long long time to get done, so at this time it's just a proposal, nothing's been put into law yet.

Ofcourse, There are alot countries left to move your business to even if some countries do the same.

Should I start running like a beheaded chicken now, or later? Decisions, decisions.

dont hold your breaths on this bill

While this may just be something that will be thrown out it's stll fucking scary that they don't give a flying fuck what the financial implications of being forced to a new TLD are.

Such as:
Domain Squatting
SEO Issues
Branding
Etc

The US still pwns and regulates the domain registration business, right?

yup, although ICANN was under EU pressure to rescind its power, the US gov put ICANN in charge for the forseeable future. That means ICANN is under US gov control, and if it goes through you can expect shit to hit the fan, and the adult industry left to fight its own battles over cyber squatting, SEO, and other fallout issues.

Bascially if you're a US based site owner you'd better hope this doesn't go through or you'll be forced to deal with massive headaches with transition moving your business aborad, or even bigger headaches with .xxx

I doubt it's going to come to pass

this bill will stumble alot of obstacles before if get's approved, lots of uncertainty from this point on for all webmasters/owners

:smokin

anyone assuming this would only hit US based sites and businesses better also assume that with ICANN under US control - scratch the idea of it being for a forseeable future only, noone can seriously expect Verisign to engage in big negotiations in 2012, so the "presumptive renewal" right given to them effectively means a US controlled entity, namely Verisign, has everlasting control over .com and we will probably see a similar deal for the Verisign controlled .net at some point - we could also expect TOS following suit and forbidding adult material under non-adult TLDs.

then add a bit of filtering for catch phrases, a bit of grassing up from rivaling webmasters, and we'll basically see the germans' crap with 'webmasters' and lawyers making a living from pissing on each other on a worldwide scale.

fun.

Another very interesting instance of that is Joe Lieberman co-sponsoring Sam Brownback with their recent obscenity bill...

Bastards:ticking

oh fuck :(

And for those of us who own websites with the same URL and different TLD? What do they do, draw straws to see if the .com, .net, .org, .ws etc get the new TLD?

Why can't parents be responsible for their children? There are filters now, what makes them think that filtering out .xxx will work if the current filters don't work?