Comment on proposed .XXX TLD

[patti cake <basschickmail@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello.
  
  I was against .XXX the last time it was suggested and I am equally  against 
it now as being completely gratuitous.  The owner of ICM  very courteously 
responded to some emailed questions I had a while ago,  and after reading his 
responses it was obvious that .XXX will do  nothing to keep children away from 
adult material.  He spoke of  educating parents and filtering, but those things 
can very easily be  accomplished without .XXX.
  
  The truth is that .XXX cannot work without filtering being used and if  
parents were educated and started using filtering we still wouldn't  need a new 
TLD - just a small snippet of code or the ability to  register a domain with 
the filters.  
  
  The internet is a public place for adults as well as children, and just  as 
in the middle of a city, parents should not let their children roam  
unattended.  AOL has a kids-only area and so does Yahoo, which  makes sense.  
  
  A .kids TLD and browsers that were kids-only could give children an  entire 
safe area to surf without intruding on adults' freedom of  communication.  
There are things that are harmful to minors that  are not sexually related and 
a .XXX TLD wouldn't help in these  situations at all.  We shouldn't censor 
medical sites, political  sites, art sites or sites like Amazon that sell books 
that are  considered art or literature but are not appropriate for  children.  
  
  Thank you,
  
  Patti
  
         
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