[139089] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sat Mar 26 18:32:27 2011
Date: 26 Mar 2011 22:31:24 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim4-q7X=8cPdinhcvJuCLm-JxZSD1s01zktSecf@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>Suppose, just for the sake of the argument, that a statute or
>precedent came about to the effect that a community which permits
>access to .xxx sites (by not censoring the DNS) implicitly accepts
>"that kind of thing" isn't obscenity under local law.
If we're doing counterfactuals, let's suppose that everyone in the
world thinks that .XXX is a great idea, and ICANN runs itself
efficiently on a budget of $1M/yr.
R's,
John
