Journal aarmenaa's Journal: The .XXX TLD: Quit Your Bitching 1
The below was originally supposed to go into a discussion as a response to someone's reasoning against the .XXX TLD, but it got very long and wasn't really the topic at hand anyways. So now it's a journal entry. My first journal entry on Slashdot - that's a landmark or something in nerdom.
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First and most important: Who mandates it? Nobody has authority over the interwebbernet
The simple answer is, you let the registrars enforce it. Put it in the TOS: "If you host XXX content on this shiny new .com, we'll hand your name over to law enforcement and cancel your account. We'll also have your balls. You should buy a .XXX instead." Of course, there's a bit more to it than that. To enforce this, make a complaints form. One field of the form is to put the full URI of the offending page. The other field is a place for user comments. You can disregard the user comments, they're just there to let angry users with an agenda bitch. When the user hits the submit button, download a copy of the URI and put it in a database along with the other information. If you get more than say 3 complaints, check your cached copies and see if you've got an obvious offender. Places like Network Solutions already show pictures of websites when you do a WHOIS lookup. Try looking up slashdot.org on it.
Oh, and it's intarweb. Gosh, I thought everyone knew that.
What about a national geographic-style site that would include topless women from some tribe in africa?
This could be handled via the complaints system. User complains to registrar, registrar examines sites and could suggest that National Geographic might want to invest in nationalgeographic.xxx domain for some of their content. Of course, if you've just got a bunch of complaining prudes then you put nationalgeographic.com on a reject list and when people try to submit it, they're told to sodmize themselves. Sure, this means that some "grey area" sites might remain on .com while others are in .XXX, but that's not really the purpose (inconsistency in grey area sites). The purpose is to put obviouspornosite.com on obviouspornosite.xxx instead.
What about a site selling underwear as well as other non-questionable content? Like Amazon.
Then they might want to invest in amazon.com and amazon.xxx to split up their content. Most companies own multiple variations of their domain anyways, and since the cost of registering a new one is minimal, it's not too much to ask. Also, and underwear ad isn't exactly the same thing obviouspornsite.com. Again, the purpose is to move the most obvious crap out of the regular namespace.
What about webcam sites where people are free to be as nude or not-nude as they like?
This is an easy one: ony non-nude cams on webcams.com. If you want nudity on your cam, you register at webcams.xxx which is owned by the same company. If you can't be assed to abide by those rules, don't worry. We'll move your webcam for you.
What about informative sites teaching kids about their own body? (clitical, jackinworld, etc)
Use one of those warnings where you have to click ok to get in. Besides all that, I highly doubt your average hormone pumped teen is really intrested in an educational expaination of how sex works. Also, places like this are a better way to figure out who sex works and a porn site (believe it or not, not every orifice was intended for sex), so stop bitching. You have choices - completely getting rid of sex on the internet isn't one of them.
What about non comercial personal pages that include nudes
Don't host nudes on your personal or other non commercial website unless it's an XXX TLD. Again, you can buy two domain names. They're not expensive, Yahoo! will sell you one for 5 bucks.
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I'll admit I've got motives for seeing the .XXX TLD go in. I'm really tired of getting porn results mixed in with my google searches. Image searches are espicially bad about this because porn sites have started masking images with more normal names and such.
And I'm not a prude either. I don't want porn completely gone from the internet, I just want to be able to control my experience online. It also has one other benefit: I don't have to listen to people bitch anymore. "I found porn in our Temporay Internet Files, Johhny's been looking at porn!" Actually, Johnny's just been doing Google image searches, but he's fucked anyways - his parents don't know the difference. I've seen things similar to this before. One kid I know got in trouble for looking at porn because his parents recieved a pornographic spam. The not-too-bright parents assumed the mail was generated by their kid surfing porn and pretty much banned him from the internet. And yes, they still use AOL to this day, and still haven't got a clue how the internet works. Granted .XXX doesn't stop this problem in particular, but I can only imagine that punishment would've been death had porn been found on the family's hard disk.
I must address the crowd claiming that a .XXX domain just legitizes porn. Yes, it does. And you can just quit bitching. We're way past the point of stopping porn altogether and frankly I'm not sure I'd want it entirely eradicated. That would be too close to a China-like solution. This argument puts you in the worst possible situation: you don't like it, but you can't do anything about it because meerly acknowledging that it exists would legitimize it.
This is why the rest of the world wants to take control of the DNS system from the United States: we're too busy being whiny, bitchy, little pussies to do something about it. Trial a .XXX TLD. If we can't make it work, trash it or make it optional. It wouldn't be the first "special" TLD that's become useless. I consider most every TLD added recently to be quite useless.
Oh, and existing porn sites have six months to a year to buy a .XXX domain. Their exact domain in the .com section will be reserved for them in .XXX. They may keep their .com and have it redirect if they want (after all, blocking software can still block .XXX even if you end up there through a redirect). After that time has expired, your name is no longer reserved and you can be fined for not following the rules. And the fine gets bigger each time we catch you. NOTHING on your porn site should be accessable through a .com even if you're just using it as an image server. Images will load as well from a .XXX domain as a .com.
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First and most important: Who mandates it? Nobody has authority over the interwebbernet
The simple answer is, you let the registrars enforce it. Put it in the TOS: "If you host XXX content on this shiny new
Oh, and it's intarweb. Gosh, I thought everyone knew that.
What about a national geographic-style site that would include topless women from some tribe in africa?
This could be handled via the complaints system. User complains to registrar, registrar examines sites and could suggest that National Geographic might want to invest in nationalgeographic.xxx domain for some of their content. Of course, if you've just got a bunch of complaining prudes then you put nationalgeographic.com on a reject list and when people try to submit it, they're told to sodmize themselves. Sure, this means that some "grey area" sites might remain on
What about a site selling underwear as well as other non-questionable content? Like Amazon.
Then they might want to invest in amazon.com and amazon.xxx to split up their content. Most companies own multiple variations of their domain anyways, and since the cost of registering a new one is minimal, it's not too much to ask. Also, and underwear ad isn't exactly the same thing obviouspornsite.com. Again, the purpose is to move the most obvious crap out of the regular namespace.
What about webcam sites where people are free to be as nude or not-nude as they like?
This is an easy one: ony non-nude cams on webcams.com. If you want nudity on your cam, you register at webcams.xxx which is owned by the same company. If you can't be assed to abide by those rules, don't worry. We'll move your webcam for you.
What about informative sites teaching kids about their own body? (clitical, jackinworld, etc)
Use one of those warnings where you have to click ok to get in. Besides all that, I highly doubt your average hormone pumped teen is really intrested in an educational expaination of how sex works. Also, places like this are a better way to figure out who sex works and a porn site (believe it or not, not every orifice was intended for sex), so stop bitching. You have choices - completely getting rid of sex on the internet isn't one of them.
What about non comercial personal pages that include nudes
Don't host nudes on your personal or other non commercial website unless it's an XXX TLD. Again, you can buy two domain names. They're not expensive, Yahoo! will sell you one for 5 bucks.
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I'll admit I've got motives for seeing the
And I'm not a prude either. I don't want porn completely gone from the internet, I just want to be able to control my experience online. It also has one other benefit: I don't have to listen to people bitch anymore. "I found porn in our Temporay Internet Files, Johhny's been looking at porn!" Actually, Johnny's just been doing Google image searches, but he's fucked anyways - his parents don't know the difference. I've seen things similar to this before. One kid I know got in trouble for looking at porn because his parents recieved a pornographic spam. The not-too-bright parents assumed the mail was generated by their kid surfing porn and pretty much banned him from the internet. And yes, they still use AOL to this day, and still haven't got a clue how the internet works. Granted
I must address the crowd claiming that a
This is why the rest of the world wants to take control of the DNS system from the United States: we're too busy being whiny, bitchy, little pussies to do something about it. Trial a
Oh, and existing porn sites have six months to a year to buy a
Nudity isn't pornographic (Score:1)
How did that confusion ever get started? Ever heard of the Sistine Chapel [google.com]?
Using the .XXX TLD should be completely voluntary. Otherwise, those with a censorship agenda will be all over it.