Newly released e-mails allege U.S. government officials ressured a leading Internet authority into voting against creating a kind of red-light district for adult Web sites.
The apparent involvement of the U.S. Department of Commerce, President Bush's chief political operative Karl Rove and others is significant. If true, it means the U.S. government violated terms of a complicated arrangement it has with ICANN, the Internet authority that voted 9-5 last week not to OK the .xxx proposal.
Interesting piece about government influence in killing the porn domain. I don't know what it is about this administration and it's preoccupation with sex. The .xxx is a perfect way to separate and control the trafficking of internet porn.
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Since porn sites would not have been required to move their sites to an .xxx domain, it couldn't have been used to filter porn sites.
That's good to know. Your site is excellent, and very informative about the industry and regulation. Thanks for the clarification.
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