Bush Blasts XXX Domains

[sabra]

http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=13180&hed=Bush+Blasts+XXX+Domains

Bush Blasts XXX Domains

Bush administration cites protests of triple-X porn domains on the Internet.

The Bush administration has put up a stop sign in the Internet’s new red-light district, asking for a delay in Tuesday’s scheduled approval of XXX domains due to voter concerns about the growth of pornography on the Internet.

“The Department of Commerce has received nearly 6,000 letters and emails from individuals expressing concern about the impact of pornography on families and children,” wrote Assistant Secretary Michael Gallagher in a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

The U.S. Commerce Department has reserved the right to block the XXX domain no matter what decision ICANN or the ICM Registry ultimately makes. The department issued a report during 2000 to the General Accounting Office stating that even after it transferred control over the authoritative root server to ICANN, it would still retain final policy control.

Conservative groups like the Family Research Council have been encouraging their members to write to the Commerce Department to protest the new triple-X domains.

[geek tragedy]

1. Because there's no porn on the web right now.

:sarcasm:

[short bus president]

2. so the opposition to .XXX is because of...

:shrug:

I guess Georgie would prefer to keep whitehouse.com right where it is?

[Beetwasher]

36. OH MY GOD!!! THERE'S PORNOGRAPHY ON THE INTERNETS???!!!????

Why wasn't I notified????

[LoKnLoD]

3. Figures

Requiring all porn to use a .xxx domain would make blocking porn from workplaces and kids so much easier on admins and parents. The only thing is who is determing what is and what is not porn

[short bus president]

8. I believe existing registrations would be grandfathered

so my example of whitehouse.com in my previous post is flawed. Still, what this boils down to is the usual prude-squad suspects shouting loudly "we don't like it, therefore nobody should have it." 6000 complaints is NOTHING. Hell, that's only one mega-church's worth of complaints. But the prude-squad is loud. And used to getting its way.

[The Backlash Cometh]

35. If adults can access the sites, what difference does it make to the

consumer?

[Roland99]

4. Let's be sure to keep all of the adult wesbsites buried amongst the rest

Morans.

[Avalux]

5. You've got to be kidding me.

Once again, logic escapes them. Setting up an XXX domain will not cause more porn sites (if that's even possible). The sites will be easier to filter out if they have that domain.

IDIOTS. :crazy:

[BlueEyedSon]

6. Wait til he gets a look at the Abu Ghraib XXX pix!!!!

[Gregorian]

14. Absolutely. Those are for real. Far more serious.

[expatriot]

7. Um... wouldn't that make it EASIER to block porn sites?

Technically( I know they wouldn't do this), but if all porn sites were made to use the .xxx suffix (I know, I know, DEFINE porn sites) then filering of porn sites would be less mysterious and easier. If you wetn to some computer and it said "this internet access blocks content from .xxx sites" it would much clearer than "this internet access blocks all content that is deemed inappropriate and "lude" You'd think porn-control advocacy groups would welcome a "redistricting" of the internet's red light district.

[Mairead]

43. what makes you think they WANT it to be easier to block?

The best totalitarian laws are vaguely worded so that people are constantly fearful and self-repressive.

[meegbear]

9. "nearly 6,000 letters and emails" ...

and that's the voice of America.

Millions protest about going to invade a country and they're a "focus group". Go figure.

[LoKnLoD]

13. And he got a letter with over half a million signatures

John Conyers DSM petition and choose to ignore that, he is such a POS.

[mike_c]

30. ding ding ding....

Best response today!

[ekelly]

39. Since when.......

does * give a damn about letters from thousands of individuals?
Since when does he care what people think?

Hasn't he recently received petitions with thousands of individuals' signatures?
Why hasn't he responded to those yet?

H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E-!

[Canuckistanian]

51. He ignore petitions with hundreds of thousands of names

He even ignores letters signed by dozens of congressmen. Why should he even take notice of a mere 6,000 names?

[Inland]

52. People who agree with Bush have all the access they need.

People who don't agree with Bush are left waiting in a ditch at the side of a road.

[expatriot]

10. oh thanks for the thought.... eeewww....

I was thinking about George W. Bush and the whole porn thing and the thought crossed my mind: I wonder if * has a latina fetish, because if he does that would be something I'd have in common with him.

I don't want NOTHING in common with him so I hope to god he don't have no latina fetish!

[LoKnLoD]

19. He has

A Gap tooth fetish

[KyndCulture]

11. I find .gov sites FAR MORE offensive. nt

[jayfish]

12. So A Million People Marching In The Streets To Stop A War...

is a "focus group", but 6,000 letters and emails are voter concerns? Disgusting pandering. :banghead:

Jay

[tom_paine]

46. Yes, but the 6,000 are members of THE PARTY

Just like the old Soviet Union, which Imperial Amerika grows closer to every day, one million non-PARTY members' lives are not even close to being equal to the worth of the lives of PARTY MEMBERS.

End of story. It really is as simple as that. Why? Free nations are complex. Totalitarian Nations, such as Imperial Amerika, are simple as easily predictable.

The life of a single PARTY member of the Busheviks is worth more than a whole heap of burning corpses of the Enemies of the State (i.e., anyone who is not a PARTY Member).

This is not new, but has been going on since the Old United States of Aerica died in 2000. It is a natural progression for Slave Nations like ours.

[jokerman93]

59. Actually

That sums it up pretty well I think. They are the ones that voted for him. All 6000 of them. Couldn't say as much for the millions in those focus groups...

[Gregorian]

15. First is XXX, then it's DU. This is just a foot in the door beginning.

[charlie]

16. I wonder how many porn donors to the RNC

it took for Dubya to take this stance?

[LeftHander]

17. "It's hard work...killing all those popups..." GW

nt

[louis-t]

55. He wouldn't know a pop-up

if it hit him in the face. Too lazy to learn to use the internets.

[atreides1]

18. So a question

How many letters did the Chimp receive when he had a porn star and a porn movie producer attend his dinner????

[hatrack]

20. Why does he hate Vin Diesel? I mean, the guy's just an action star, but .

Oh, never mind.

[bemildred]

24. Sterling effort there. nt

[hatrack]

32. Bah-da-BOOM

:hi:

[DJ MEW]

21. XXX domains are a great idea but

I can just see that so many web sites that aren't XXX but still objectionable to some people would also get a XXX rating. Who decides what web sites are XXX and which aren't

[bemildred]

22. Lusers reveal themselves again.

I assume the real objection is that the top-level domain lends legitimacy to the smut business, as this will have zero effect on net porn, and will keep smut filtering in the disorganized and ineffective state that it now is. The net is and always has been a fountain of pornography, a trasher of taboos and sensibilities. It's kind of stunning the sheer quantity of smut there is out there, being churned out every day. Most kids with access have seen everything there is to see in excruciating and unromantic detail by the the time they reach puberty, and there seems little probability of stuffing the genie back in the bottle short of bringing the net down for good. Even in the old dial-up bulletin-board days 80% of what was out there was smut.

But this is just political posturing (How's it going Cindy?) and not really intended to do much else but distract and suck up to certain constituencies.

[Princess Turandot]

62. Do you remember the guy in Utah who had a pornography store..

and I think got arrested, altho it may have been shut down under a civil law instead? His attorney determined the vast amount of x-rated movies alone bought from cable and satellite companies in Utah, so their sanctimonious Utah community values were well exposed. The guy won the case.

[bemildred]

63. That rings a vague bell in my head. It's been ten years or so.

:thumbsup:

[VegasWolf]

23. See, the PORN industry has ONE dinner with this greedy little sack of

shit president, and they start getting favors. Look at all
the letterheads they would have to change.

[guruoo]

37. Bush's Porn industry buddies hate it it because...

going to special xxx domains would make it
much easier for them to be filtered out.
(Follow the fundie money).

[Bosso 63]

25. I"m Shocked! Shocked I tell ya!

Sounds to me like they want control of the news cycle again. Don't talk about Iraq, Don't talk about gas prices, Cindy, Rove, ect ..... Breaking News - This just in- Shocking PORN is everywhere! film at 11:00

[quiet.american]

26. Wonder if ole' JimmyJeff will "report" on this. n/t

[ET Awful]

27. Wouldn't that be basing policy on a focus group? . . . I thought he didn't

like doing that.

[gasperc]

28. it would be easy for citizens and libraries to simply block .XXX

and this dolt is opposed. Hopeless

[Neshanic]

29. Chimpy scrambling to base. Puerto Rico statehood next?

Looks like they are grasping at straws.

[Ediacara]

31. So..... 0.002% of us dislike porn so much they wrote a letter?

And not a spontaneous letter, but a letter written because they were ordered to? What about the 99.998% of us that don't have a problem with porn (by adults and for adults of course)?

[demo dutch]

33. Don't they have something better to do!

[delen]

34. Guess this is the GOP's

pressing "issue" for 2006 elections

[Yavin4]

38. Other Than Porn and DU, What Else Is The Internet For?

I remember the good old days of the net when it was used to find nude photos of Terri Hatcher.

[obxhead]

40. 6,000 letters about porn and we get action

Didn't we have 50,000+ about the DSM? Have I mentioned how much I hate this administration today.

[blue northern]

41. pure political theatre

If the US Commerce Dept. approved the .xxx domain, so what?
Porn purveyors outside of the US would feel free to ignore.
It's entirely a PR exercise to make fundies feel godly without actually accomplishing anything.
* countering the non-measure is another PR exercises.
* and his non-opponents are doing some sanctimonious shadow boxing to promote their agenda.

[Deja Q]

42. Nothing better to do?!

:eyes:

[rodeodance]

44. and Repug agenda continues in every governmental agency!!!!

[kodi]

45. why does george bush hate the free market system?

If the Department of Commerce had received nearly 6,000 letters and emails from individuals expressing concern about the impact of poverty on families and children what would the government's response have been to that?

NOTHING

[MN ChimpH8R]

47. More Chimpish idiocy

Cindy Sheehan patiently waits, gas is $3/gallon, the economy is heading nowhere, servicemen and women continue dropping like flies in his unnecessary war and traitors are still working in the MonkeyHouse.

And this is what Napoleon Bonehead decides to raise as a talking point. What a disgusting example of a turd this pathetic little "man" is.

[truthisfreedom]

48. it's not going to change porn on the internet, whether there's a .xxx

domain. this is all about bush trying to invigorate his base again, and it's just plain stupid, because by attracting attention to this subject, he's going to open a can of worms about porn on the internet in general and that will irritate rich businessmen everywhere who are making a killing in internet porn.

bush is a goofball with no real forward view.

[caligirl]

49. One word: GANNON

[4_Legs_Good]

50. LOL! 6000 letters for porn

If the FCC gets 60,000 about changing rules they don't do shit, but 6,000 about porn and the pResident intervenes.

How easy will it be to put a filter that blocks any sites that are

yyy.xxx?

Pretty damned easy, I would think.

david

[Up2Late]

53. Yes! A XXX Domain will just encourage the Pornographers and before you...

...know it... :spray: :rofl: OMG! What a bunch af ReTards! Sorry, I didn't mean insult retarded people.

[pitohui]

54. doesn't he have anything better to do? EOM

.

[Gary Boatwright]

56. Nothing wrong with porn. I'm a subscriber.

I'm guaranteed by the constitution the right to view nasty XXX action at my leisure. Bush should remember what our troops are dying for.

[despairing optimist]

57. Why do you think this story is posted on RedHerring.com?

It's just a sop to the fundies. Porn is the Internet's biggest business, and if anything, Bush will use the smut campaign as a way to extort more money from his Pioneer porn contributors so they'll be upgrading their protection. Look at it as the Norton AntiVirus subscription approach to planned political giving.

[stepnw1f]

58. Yet He Hires a Male Prostitute

to lob softball questions to him during press conferences. What a joke this guy is.

[lumpy]

60. Guess we know how George has been

spending his vacation.

[Eugene]

61. The stupidest part of it is that conservatives pushed for .xxx

to make net porn easier to filter.
Some wanted to make it mandatory for adult sites.
Some even attacked ICANN for initially refusing
to create the .xxx TLD.

Now the zealots are threating to derail it,
leaving the status quo.

[Chovexani]

64. Obligatory Avenue Q post

The internet is really really great
For porn
I've got a fast connection so I don't have to wait
For porn
There's always some new site
For porn
I browse all day and night
For porn!
It's like I'm surfing at the speed of light
For porn!