Domain .xxx is not needed?

The BBC yesterday published an interesting story about the increased pressure on the international agency ICANN, which monitors domains on the Internet, to hurry with the decision about the domain for adults - .xxx


ICANN has been pondering this decision for several years now, accepting and rejecting the proposal to limit adult content to one domain. Supporters argue that this will help users filter out the pass, opponents say that it will not be easy to force all content to be transferred to this zone, and there will be complaints about freedom of speech.

I personally hope that ICANN will “bury” the idea of ​​the .xxx domain once and for all. The selected domain will theoretically simplify the filtering task for schools, libraries and parents who want to protect children from these materials. But then again, what's stopping porn producers from using another domain?

What, there will be "International Porn Police", which will seek out violators?
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Imagine that this international structure will face the same headache that Apple faced, which took on the role of "nurse" for its App Store. It seems to me that the employees of Steve Jobs consider this process to be an ungrateful routine that brings no pleasure to anyone. Last week, a group of observers upset everyone that the App Store is still a lot of porn , despite Apple's efforts to clean up its online application store.


ICANN as a porno cop is a disaster, I tell you. At what point does the content become “old enough” to be placed in the .xxx domain? For example photos from Sports Illustrated fit the definition of "porn"? Most of us will say no. But many Internet users look at these things differently. Let the Great Porn Holivor begin!
And can “pornography” keep track of the Internet entirely? Of course not.

In fact, there will be no porno cops. Domains in the .xxx zone will simply be put up for sale, so that representatives of the sex industry will be able to post their content there as well.
I bet that many porn producers will avoid the ghetto zones .xxx, and even if they started posting their content there, they will most likely keep the old addresses in the .com zone in order to attract customers who have the .xxx zone closed.

My recommendation: Leave it as it is. Libraries, schools and parents may still do what they did before: they strengthen filtering policies. But the .xxx domain will not achieve the goal that those who offer it have drawn, it will not become such an “online red light district”.


via pcworld.com