Ravenwood - 08/22/05 06:00 AM
Once again Americans show just how prudish they can be. After thousands of complaints, the Department of Commerce is asking ICAAN to reconsider dedicating a XXX domain.
The Department of Commerce received an "unprecedented" number of messages opposing the .xxx address, Michael Gallagher, the agency's assistant secretary for communications and information, said in a recent letter to the nonprofit Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers. The Internet Corp. assigns Web addresses.[snarky]Yeah because the internet is already "porn free". And blocking the entire .XXX domain would be difficult and technological.[/snarky]Gallagher wrote that the department received nearly 6,000 letters and e-mails expressing concerns about the effect of pornography on families and children and objecting to setting aside a domain suffix for it.
He stopped short of urging rejection of the address, but he called on the Internet Corp. to "ensure the best interests of the Internet community as a whole are fully considered."
Approval of the domain name had been expected as early as Tuesday, five years after it was first proposed and two months after the Internet Corp. gave it a tentative OK.
Larry Flynt said it first, I'll say it again. Murder is illegal, yet if you take a picture of it, that's legal. They'll put it on the cover of Newsweek and give you a Pulitzer prize. Sex, on the other hand is legal. Yet if you take pictures of it or show it on TV or in movies, you're accused of some sort of deviant behavior.
Category: Pleasure Police
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I think ARPAnet was specifically designed for sharing pornography. Anyway that was the first image I saw come up on a newly-connected VAX780 in the 80s. I have the feeling that males were involved in the design. ``What can we test this on..''
Posted by: Ron Hardin at August 22, 2005 11:49 AMI could add that an ASCII picture of a nude babe on a stool started coming out in my 7090 comp center in the 60s. Management started confiscating the responsible punch card decks, which instantly resulted in their duplication and proliferation.
Males, as I recall Imus saying the 70s, think about sex five times an hour. Imus said with him it's only once, but it lasts the whole hour.
A woman writing on Picasso and his late fascination with the female nude, to the point of pornography some complained, said that one day, the theme simply stopped appearing, in his 80s as I recall. She speculated that Picasso had come to terms with his mortality (I forget the mapping but she had an elaborate symbolic explanation) and so he was finally at peace. She is not a guy. What happened is that some neuron stopped firing.
The actual rap on pornography is that it can take over all the field.
Posted by: Ron Hardin at August 22, 2005 11:56 AM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
