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Re: India to block .XXX top-level domain

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Post by anamax »

Dilpil wrote: post #21
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.

> I would pitch it to the adult industry as follows:

Ah, so you're going to lie to them.

> Let us filter out these useless bandwidth leeches for you.

What are the odds that you'll do a better job (from their point of view) than they will?

More to the point, why should they believe that you're even trying to help their profits? When there's a choice between the nannies and their profits, which way will you go?

> in an area where sex is so taboo they will not possibly whip out their credit card for a porn site

Since such an area doesn't exist, we know the answer to the last question. (Seriously - I'll bet real money that there are folks in the Vatican paying for porn.)

There are folks in India who are paying for porn. Since India is one of the "bandwidth leeches" that you're protecting me from....

Re: India to block .XXX top-level domain

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Post by gender-bias »

jodrellblank wrote: post #22

It's strange how adult humans give other adult humans the power to tell them which websites/books/etc. they aren't allowed to see for their own good. And that's just a normal part of the way the world works.

This is part of the social contract you sign when you're born. (oh waitaminute I didn't sign it, I never agreed to it, that's beside the point). Because when you have a problem with the system, it's up to you to change it. OR, as statists say "If you don't like this country, then you're free to move". . Good luck!

Re: India to block .XXX top-level domain

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Post by notahacker »

gaius wrote: post #38
JoachimSchipper wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The comment should arguably cite something , and the mention of "Muslim" suggests a less-than-neutral look at the data. Looking at both http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_de... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_de... , India is not near the top. The top isn't characterized by being muslim, either. [EDIT: was "Neither are "muslim" states, though - with the exception o…

"Muslim" and "African" are not mutually exclusive! Top of that list is Niger and Wikipaedia says: Islam, spread from North Africa beginning in the 10th century, has greatly shaped the mores of the people of Niger. Between 80 to more than 98% of the population is Muslim So dimmuborgir was quite correct.

Azerbaijan (98% Muslim) is 149th in that list, well below India both in ranking and actual births. A casual glance down the list shows a large proportion of Muslim countries with lower birth and fertility rates than India.

His statement is true in the same narrow sense as other nonsensical assertions like "No. Muslim countries have higher per capita incomes than the US" as a counterargument to suggestions the US might be doing rather well financially (without having as much oil per capita as Qatar and Bahrain). It's equally true to say "Christian countries have higher birth rate than India", but I'm guessing the original poster doesn't live in an environment where misleading negative stereotypes about Christians are commonplace.

Insinuating that Islam had anything to do with higher fertility rates is the sort of intellectually dishonest chauvinism and religious stereotyping that HN readers should be above. Couple that with a denial that a birthrate of >3 children per woman in an developing country of over a billion people might present a major challenge and you have a comment thoroughly deserving of downvotes.

Re: India to block .XXX top-level domain

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Post by drhodes »

jodrellblank wrote: post #22

It's strange how adult humans give other adult humans the power to tell them which websites/books/etc. they aren't allowed to see for their own good. And that's just a normal part of the way the world works.

We didn't have a choice in the matter. We inherit the subjection our ancestors tolerate. Deviants shall be shamed and jailed.

Re: India to block .XXX top-level domain

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Post by maw »

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.

There are more than a billion people living in India. I don't think you can say much about them collectively, aside from obvious banalities.
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