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Greg Krajewski |
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Thu, June 15, 2000 at 7:14 PM GMT |
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.sex - Create Internet Zoning Laws |
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I have for a long time advocated the use of certain TLD's which
would be commercially "Zoned" much like our property laws are built on (which the
idea came from England)...For instance in a residential area in your city, could
you open a porn shop...No! However if you wanted to open a porn shop
in a zoned space in the comercial zone you probably could... They set the laws
up like this to protect residential areas from having to deal with the hustle and
bustle of commercial life (including porn)...
So I pose this to ICANN...why not
set up different zones...They could be designed to protect children and mainstain
free speech. So a dot sex could have it's own zone where smut dealers can set
up (without infringing on their rights)... The precedent is already there as they
cannot set up shop in a residential area...The equivalent would be to set aside the
dot sex zone which would be for commerical "porn" vendors... By the way, I
will offer free consultations to explore this idea (to ICANN)... P.S
What I am prosing sounds much like the prosal for restricted TLD's however my idea
is different in that you would be creating zones which then the porn vendors would
HAVE to move their dot com site over to the new zone (.sex) if they wish to operate
on the net...Whether legally this could be challenged is a different issue though,
as websites are autonomous and don't really have a physical location (as you do a
residential property area), however the challenge would be mute if it were found
that children were in fact gaining access to these sites...My wife who is a teacher
tells me that the children still gain access to these sites by going to other sites
that are linked to porn (to circumvent any children protection software)...I would
venture to say that the porn websites would be in favor of such a "commerical zone"
as then this could give them more of a free operating zone...Parents then would feel
comfortable knowing that the software is working because it would then screen out
.sex...as opposed to the child, linking out to "safe pages" which are linked to porn.....
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