.XXX doesn't serve the intended purpose

["alex" <rawalex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The idea of XXX sounds so appealing and simple at the start, but in the end
fails to meet the goals set out:

 

To make the internet safe for children.

 

.XXX goes against the basic idea of protected free speech.  Attempting to
round up all adult material and stick in into a TLD red light district
sounds appealing, but it starts the slippery slope of denying other legal
and protected speech it's right to exist in the open.  Next would be .NEWS
where all the news sites would have to go and be protected from children who
should not read about death, murder, war, and WMD.  Then you would have to
move the sexual information (such as STDs, birth control and such) to
.SEXINFO and items about abortion to .ROEVWADE and so on and so on.  Before
long the only thing left on .COM would be stuff safe for 10 year old
children.

 

.XXX would also be impossible to police, impossible to control, and about
impossible to enforce.  It just creates another layer of domains and domain
speculation, brings copyright issues to existing adult oriented websites,
and creates a whole new set of cybersquatting issues.   It also would appear
to raise the costs of free speech when compared to .com domains, as I
currently pay about $10 per daomin, and .XXX would appear to make that much,
much higher.  The cost of free speech should be the same for all.

 

The end result is that if a new TLD is needed, it would be .KIDS.  A small
percentage of the internet sites in the world qualify, browsers could be set
to surf only these domains, and parents could allow even the youngest
children online safe in knowing that the only places they can go have kid
friendly material.

 

ICANN and other agencies have to accept and understand that the internet
(and the real world) is an adult place, filled with the proverbial sex,
drugs, and rock and roll, plus murder, mayhem, cults, nutcases, and all
sorts of alternate lifestyles and thoughts all of which are potentially
dangerous to minors.  In the real world you wouldn't drop your 6 year old
child in the middle of downtown New York  at midnight (or any other time for
that matter), so why should the internet even for a minute be any different?
Creation of a kids only TLD would allow parents to have a safe spot to drop
children into, an internet daycare that would provide the security they need
without infringing the rights of all adults to speak freely, fairly, and
without any restrictions or surcharges.

 

In addition to all this, placing adult material into a TLD ghetto would
allow ISPs and common carriers to more easily identify surfers visiting
these sites, and to block access or otherwise offer null routes for these
sites, creating a second class citizenship which goes against the very
nature of the net.  Again, once that barrier is broken, all sort of legal
and protected speech could end up in the routine dev/nulls of the net, and
free speech, the very premise of an open internet would disappear just as
rapidly, to be replaced with dull government approved G rated pap.

 

In the end .XXX isn't the best way to serve anyone interest except the
interest of those who seek to profit from it.