As if the internet didn't have enough rough neighborhoods for web surfers to negotiate, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is once again revisiting the notion of creating a virtual red-light district on the internet. Ostensibly, this tactic will separate web pornographers from the rest of the internet, making it easier to filter out (or in) pornographic websites.
FRC opposed this action the first time around, on the grounds that it would be unenforceable -- and grant a legitimizing status to the porn industry. While there have been a few revisions to the initial proposal, they don't appear to offer much incentive for pornographers to leave the .com domain.
The domains that are available today including .com, .net, .gov, .edu, .us, etc., represent certain areas of societal value. The proposed revisions do nothing to address the fact that granting a niche business its own top-level domain name would be unique to pornographers, who would gain a status currently only available to groups like schools, governments, and nations.
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Well congratulations FRC, you've helped hose a perfectly good idea. Filtering out an entire domain is much easier than trying to pick and choose a multitude of domains in various gTLD's.
As a Christian and an IT professional, I'm simply amazed at the total ignorance of modern Christianity. Everytime a new technology comes out the "church" comes out against it. Well guess who suffers? Everyone.
Want to know the last technology the church fully embraced? You will have to go back quite far because it is the printing press! Talk about being stuck in the past!
Well again congratulations are in order for your "victory". However, no not ever think you are speaking for all Christians all the time, because you are not.
March 31, 2007 6:04 AM | Comment Permalink