ICANN Email Archives: [xxx-icm-agreement]

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Dear ICANN
I agreee with many others, including Morality in Media, that there are at
least four problems with the proposed ?XXX? domain. 1) pornographers will
not be required to use the domain. 2) tech-savvy kids will be able to
circumvent the domain. 3) to some extent the ?XXX? domain will result in
the ?de facto? legalization of obscenity. And 4)  the ?XXX? domain will
not protect society from hardcore pornography. As the Supreme Court
observed in a 1973 obscenity case (Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton),
there are ?legitimate governmental interests at stake in stemming the
tide of obscene materials, even assuming it is feasible to enforce
effective safeguards against exposure to juveniles,? which include
maintaining ?a decent society? and protecting ?public safety,? ?family
life,? ?the quality of life,? ?the total community environment,? and
?morality.?
Morality in Media indicates that if ICANN has its way, users of the xxx
domain will not be permitted to depict child pornography. They will be
permitted to depict (among other things) 18-year-old girls and boys being
hogtied, whipped, shocked with electricity, gang raped, and tortured to
death. Depictions of pseudo child porn, bestiality, excretory functions
and matter, incest, prostitution, teenage gangbangs and unsafe sex galore
will also be permitted in the new xxx domain.
Rev. Dennis M. Dinan