Response to .XXX TLD

[BabyMaker! <pbm_20032000@xxxxxxxxx>]

As a business owner and internet surfer as well as a parent, I must object to 
the proposed formation by ICANN of the .XXX TLD. The .XXX TLD will not provide 
any further protection than is already in place, from various freely available 
parental control software programs, to keep children away from mature themed 
content, pornographic or otherwise, it will only start the internet as a whole 
on a slippery slope of unnecessary censorship and governmental control. In 
addition to unwanted censorship, the proposed .XXX TLD will also unfairly 
target a legitimate business that has diligently since its inception fought 
against the victimization of children, namely though industry funded 
organizations that seek out child predators and child pornographers and work 
with authorities in adding there capture and ultimate prosecution. 
  A more viable alternative to the proposed .XXX TLD would be to implement the 
formation of a .KIDS TLD, which would be regulated at the registration level, 
preventing any interest or organization from purchasing and using a .KIDS 
domain name for anything other than a web site geared towards children?s 
education and entertainment.
  In conclusion, I would like to point out that never was the internet intended 
for children, or to be used as a child?s unmonitored ?babysitter?, the internet 
is a microcosm of the world itself and therefore is a very dangerous, but 
exciting place to explore and learn as well as interact with various culture?s 
and to do business. By starting the slippery slope of internet censorship 
regulated by governmental bodies, opposed to self-censorship started in the 
home or by the individual themselves, we will find ourselves collectively with 
an internet that no one, myself included will want to visit!
  Sincerely,
  name edited


 
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