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Re: India to block .XXX top-level domain

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Post by Dilpil »

InclinedPlane wrote: post #11

Why would ANYONE imagine that companies would willingly put themselves in a ghetto? They know that the reason to encourage use of the .xxx TLD is to facilitate content filtering. They know that when their sites are blocked that's potential revenue lost, and if companies in the "erotica-industry" are good at anything it's making sure they make money.

I would pitch it to the adult industry as follows: If someone is surfing from behind a content filter, they are either a child without a credit card, or in an area where sex is so taboo they will not possibly whip out their credit card for a porn site. Let us filter out these useless bandwidth leeches for you.

Re: India to block .XXX top-level domain

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Post by eftpotrm »

JoachimSchipper wrote: post #7

... and .xxx becomes irrelevant. Really, if any .xxx website also needs a non-.xxx domain name, what's the point? (India won't be the last to block .xxx, I imagine.)

'Becomes' is an understatement. It seems to have been patently obvious to people who understand the Internet for many years that this wasn't going to achieve anything beyond the establishment of a new registry for people to sell domains in, yet a combination of the greedy and the ignorant meant it was always likely to actualy happen.

We all know that the sites selling adult content aren't likely to give up their existing .com domains. That sites containing user-submitted content that some would view as porn but which would themselves claim otherwise - RedBubble springs to mind - definitely aren't going to be interested in shifting to .xxx and that there will be a group campaigning for their own personal definition to be used in requiring people to move. And that sites containing, for example, material on sexual health or abortion are going to be pressured in some regions to shift to .xxx. The domain solves nothing well and creates so very many problems.

This whole issue was a very predictable problem from day one and I wish ICANN had had the courage to stand up for good sense and not grant the new TLD.

Re: India to block .XXX top-level domain

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Post by anonymous246 »

gaius wrote: post #15
todayiamme wrote: post #6

You know it's fascinating how prudish a culture seems to be ties in to the levels and statistics of sexual abuse. In india words like sexual expression are a sin and a culture has emerged based on the obsession that sex is dirty. Which is centered around the glory of men and the purity of misogyny. At the same time India by some statistics ( http://www.icrw.org/publications/international-men-and-gende... ) has the hi…

I think it must be more complex and subtle than that. Isn't India the home of the Kama Sutra? Like, if any country can claim to be the world experts on sex, it's India, they even beat the Dutch.

Kama Sutra is about 2000 years old in the current form, according to Wikipedia 2 CE. To put this in perspective, this predates the Muslim/Mongol invasions by about 1000 years, British invasion/colonization by 1700 years etc. Societies change.

Re: India to block .XXX top-level domain

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Post by anonymous246 »

InclinedPlane wrote: post #11

Why would ANYONE imagine that companies would willingly put themselves in a ghetto? They know that the reason to encourage use of the .xxx TLD is to facilitate content filtering. They know that when their sites are blocked that's potential revenue lost, and if companies in the "erotica-industry" are good at anything it's making sure they make money.

If the alternative is to get blocked for everybody, then why wouldn't they agree?

Re: India to block .XXX top-level domain

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Post by eli »

InclinedPlane wrote: post #11

Why would ANYONE imagine that companies would willingly put themselves in a ghetto? They know that the reason to encourage use of the .xxx TLD is to facilitate content filtering. They know that when their sites are blocked that's potential revenue lost, and if companies in the "erotica-industry" are good at anything it's making sure they make money.

Consider that many porn sites proactively register as "Adult Content" to make sure they are caught be filtering software.

Re: India to block .XXX top-level domain

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Post by anonymous246 »

sagarun wrote: post #18
sagarun wrote: post #4

hmm, They are keep blocking everything, still India's population is raising higher than any other country in this world.

I don't see why i got down voted. I am an Indian myself. Population is/going to be a biggest problem in India. This a truth.

The reasons for India's population growth are manifold. Your comments adds nothing of value, trivializes a complex problem, and contributed to continued misinformation about this topic.

According to my readings, two underappreciated reasons are:

1) unavailability of doctors/medical centers to do female sterilizations. Women literally riot in mobile sterilization camps if the camp closes before all of them are looked after. Men refuse to use condoms or get sterilized, but women do want to limit the number of children.

2) HUGE infant and child mortality among the poorer classes. If the probability of your child surviving to adulthood was low, you'd have three to five children too.

Neither of these are covered in your glib remark about porn. You should educate yourself more about your country.

Re: India to block .XXX top-level domain

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Post by JoachimSchipper »

eftpotrm wrote: post #23
JoachimSchipper wrote: post #7

... and .xxx becomes irrelevant. Really, if any .xxx website also needs a non-.xxx domain name, what's the point? (India won't be the last to block .xxx, I imagine.)

'Becomes' is an understatement. It seems to have been patently obvious to people who understand the Internet for many years that this wasn't going to achieve anything beyond the establishment of a new registry for people to sell domains in, yet a combination of the greedy and the ignorant meant it was always likely to actualy happen. We all know that the sites selling adult content aren't likely to give up their exis…

That's a pretty good summary of the whole .xxx fiasco.
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