Well, It is always the same thing with this type of thread... Lets try to expand beyond the obvious shall we? Francisco Obispo wrote:

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Hi,

Legislate where?..in the US ? in Canada ? Venezuela ? in Colombia? in Brazil ? .

What is pornography ? on what basis? what religion ? what culture?

regards.

Alain Hebert wrote:

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Why?

If we can coral them in it and legislate to have no porn anywhere else than on .xxx ... should fix the issue for the prudes out there.

william(at)elan.net wrote:

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http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-10may06.htm

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As reported in:

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/print?id=1947950

ICANN has reversed their earlier preliminary approval, and has now rejected the "dot-xxx" adult materials top-level domain. I applaud this wise decision by ICANN, which should simultaneously please both anti-porn and free speech proponents, where opposition to the TLD has been intense, though for totally disparate reasons.

Nick's AP piece referenced above notes that there are still Congressional efforts to mandate such a TLD. It is important to work toward ensuring that these do not gain traction.

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