Please DO NOT establish an xxx domain

[Eddie Settles <itisyourmony@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

. Neither your organization nor the company urging the establishment  
of this new domain is arguing that the triple-X domain would clean up  
the .COM domain and require all pornographers to move to the triple-X  
domain. The .COM domain is a cash cow for pornographers, and they are  
not leaving it. Since your organization has no enforcement powers to  
make them leave the .COM domain, pornographers would simply expand to  
triple-X and maintain their current .COM sites, perhaps doubling the  
number of porn sites and doubling their menace to society.
• The triple-X domain will not make it easier to filter porn, even if  
all pornographers would voluntarily move there (and that will not  
happen). The problem with filtering is not that it is difficult but  
sadly that too few parents care enough to employ filters for the home  
or laptop computers used by their children. Even if most parents did  
use filters on home computers, kids have access to the Internet  
outside the home.
• Since most families do not use effective filtering services, the  
triple-X domain would merely make hardcore pornography even easier to  
find for children. Thus the argument that a triple-X domain would  
benefit children by “cleaning up the Internet” is without any basis in  
fact.
• U.S. citizens should not believe claims by some that the U.S.  
Congress could merely pass a law requiring all porn companies to leave  
the .COM domain for the triple-X domain. Any law attempting to force  
pornographers to relocate to a triple-X domain would likely be  
declared unconstitutional because under the First Amendment, all  
pornography is “presumptively protected” by the U.S. Constitution  
until it has been determined to be “obscene” or “child pornography.”  
Just as the U.S. Department of Justice cannot force porn stores to  
move or go out of business because it believes that such stores are  
operating illegally, the Department cannot force pornographers on  
the .COM domain to move or go out of business without first charging  
them with a crime and having a court make a determination of illegality.
• Hardcore pornography (or “obscene material,” as it is called in U.S.  
law) on the Internet is already a violation of U.S law. The point here  
is that if the U.S. Department of Justice is already not enforcing the  
laws on the books, what is to make us think they will prosecute  
pornographers for merely locating in the wrong domain address?
• If somehow all porn sites providing obscene material would actually  
leave the .COM domain for the triple-X domain, they would still be  
violating U.S. obscenity law, which prohibits such material on the  
Internet regardless of location. We don’t want to provide the  
Department of Justice a ready-made excuse to say to illegal porn  
companies, “As long as you operate under the triple-X domain, we won’t  
prosecute you for the distribution of your illegal materials.”
Eddie Settles
itisyourmony@xxxxxxxxxxx
1120 Sassafras Ct.
Monteagle, TN 37356-6016
931.924.3360
931.924.3348 fax