<<< Agree with 410...... There is not the political will to protect our children.
You would be wrong to think their main priority would be to protect them from dangers
like porn, racism and bomb making. >>>Thanks, though this was not precisely my
point.
I meant to say that it is not FEASIBLE or DESIREABLE to patrol the TLDs
to make sure that each and every webpage is in tandem with the respective TLD charter.
(i.e. .com for commerce, .org for non-profit organizations, .net for Company
Networks, .art for art matters, etc) How can you ensure that there is NO porn in
a .com? What constitutes porn, and not sensual art, or a straightforward artistic
rendering of the nude body?
I don't think this should be ICANN's mission, I don't
think it should be in the FBI's mission--or the KGB's for that matter.
Now, if
you want to talk about child pornography regulation, and such things--then fine.
Those things are illegal in the real world. A system can be in place to deal with
child pornographers online in ANY and ALL TLDs.
. . . But to take a man's domain
from him, or to fine him, or to suspend services merely because he has 10 pictures
(or 10,000!) of naked breasts (or whatever) on his site. . . I think is a gross mistake.
Do that, and you will be taking down non-commercial information sites, homepages,
educational sites, non-profit organizations, etc off of .com--every moment of every
day. Isn't there a better activity ICANN and other agencies can do with their energy
and time?
Somehow I don't think that a perfect Internet should be our vision.
I think our vision should be to provide freedom of commerce, expression, and speech
throughout all the Internet--all within the parameters of what is legal in the OFFLINE
world.
I would prefer to have a system in which the lines between TLDs was blurry,
than a system in which the hundreds of thousands of people were prosecuted every
time they drew outside of the lines. How long before that militant watch spreads
globally into the offline world?The vision of Internet neatness just ain't worth
putting a guard, an armed security force, and a pack of police dogs on every Internet
corner.
Is ICANN the security force, and WIPO their pack of attack dogs?
My god.
Is this where we are going to let them take the world?
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above was not directed at Garry--but again, at everyone.)