.XXX no .KID yes

["DJ" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It will be helpful for many people who are in favor of .XXX to consider the
bigger picture and take the long view.  Of course everybody wants to shelter
our children and still allow them the power at their finger tips of the
internet for learning and socialization.  Always remain cognizant that today
children are far smarter and more sophisticated than ever before (in the
developed countries anyways) and in every matter we really have to adjust
our approach to this fact.  That being said.

.xxx is a horrible idea that should be killed forever for one overarching
reason.. and that is because it introduces an officially sanctioned
censorship mechanism into the net.  The point that it won't work technically
is secondary and it won't work because the law breakers, spammers, and
predators will do what they like anyway.  It will be a mess because a whole
industry will grow up around "WHAT" is truly ADULT and belongs on .xxx
initiating endless arguments, confusion, lawsuits, and the like.  It will
also largely be IGNORED by adult WM's who will buy their .xxx domain without
giving up their others anyway.  Any of the "smart kids" one is trying to
protect will quickly learn were to find ALL of the BAD STUFF MY PARENTS
DON"T WANT ME TO SEE.  Every group of kids 10 and up is likely to have a
mini hacker in the bunch who can work circles around parent's efforts to
filter.  But these and many, many, other reasons on why .xxx should die are
secondary to the primary one I repeat:

.xxx is a horrible idea that should be killed forever for one overarching
reason.. because it introduces an officially sanctioned censorship mechanism
into the net along with which will ultimately develop some kind of
enforcement mechanism and so on.  For once people let's look ahead down the
road at the consequence of what we're proposing.  Most everyone is already
familiar with many recent cases of large search engines bowing to various
country/government pressures and either providing data about its surfers OR
restricting data TO its users based on government decree.  Citizens
everywhere but PARTICULARLY in repressed countries or circumstances have to
understand that "governments" are completely FREAKED OUT by the internet in
general and are committed to gaining some kind of control over it and are
making strident attempts to do so on a regular basis.  Governments by their
nature hate the ability of its subjects to have all access to each other.
They can't operate the way they do without the ability to play various
groups against each other.  Even amongst all the spam and bullshit the
internet has been the veritable "fountain of truth" in so many
internationally known ways.  This is because of the "wild west" nature of
internet access.  "User Beware" is actually a good status to have.  A
government's attempt to enlarge its policy of informational control always
begins by attacking the "low hanging fruit" such as extreme radical
political speech and pornography.  It will then slowly enlarge itself.  Many
international government examples of this already exist for policy
examination on the results of censorship and the internet.  None of them are
positive from a "free thinking" point of view.

For this one single reason (and there are 100's more) the .xxx domain should
die a permanent death along with any other "mandated" .extension that ever
comes along.

On the other hand .kid domain is a wonderful idea and could become the
"fountain of development" for all children around the world.  Filters can
easily be rigged to operate on only a single domain.  A .kid domain would be
a market rich opportunity for commerce to develop sites of entertaining,
beneficial, content rich nature at all price points from subscription to
free (imagine all the public domain education software in one single
directory?).  A .kid domain would truly create an attractive industry
OVERNIGHT.  If children and access to pornography and other harmful material
on the internet is the question then addressing that by giving children
THEIR OWN unique, protected, easily monitored space seems only like the most
reasonable conclusion.  Doesn't it?  Of course it does.  Kill .xxx  Raise
.kid


DJilla