Attempts to create a domain name to handle adult online content faced an uncertain future on Friday after ICANN abandoned plans to debate the issue.
The proposal to create a .xxx domain was due to get final approval at an ICANN board meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. But ICANN chairman Vint Cerf surprised the meeting on Thursday by announcing that it had been removed from the agenda.
ICANN said on Thursday that its governmental advisory committee needed more time to review a 350-page report into the creation of .xxx. This report was finished back in August, but released only earlier this week.
Syracuse University professor Milton Mueller told Reuters that the U.S. has been lobbying other governments to oppose the plan.
But according to reports from Vancouver, there is speculation that the EU put pressure on ICANN not to approve .xxx. The EU is pushing to reduce the U.S. influence over the Internet. Holding up the .xxx domain could highlight flaws in the current state of Internet governance.
The Porn industry is paying off the committe members to not approve the adoption of .xxx domains because they know that as soon as it is approved, others will lobby for mandatory expulsion of porn sites from .com, .net, .ect into the more easy to regulate .xxx. Popups blockers and web filters will be so much more effective when this happens and that scares the porn industry. They don't stop to think or don't care that this would tremendously help parents protect their children from accidental exposure.
You have to tell me how to come across it *by accident*. If that was the case, my firewall log would be filled with attempted access to porn by our employees... We did tell them that website access was monitored.
So, my conclusion is that thanks to the default filters in search engines, you do not come across it by accident anymore.
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So, my conclusion is that thanks to the default filters in search engines, you do not come across it by accident anymore.
clicked it.