[139090] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Sat Mar 26 19:17:28 2011
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <20110326223124.74544.qmail@joyce.lan>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:17:19 -0400
To: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 26, 2011, at 6:31 PM, John Levine wrote:
>> 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.
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> 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.
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For some reason the aerodynamics of pigs comes to mind here. Having pigs =
fly is=20
just about as likely as having ambitious Southern prosecutors=20
give up the ability to bring meaningless, but newsworthy, porn =
prosecutions, ICANN's new TLD or no.=20
Regards
Marshall
> R's,
> John
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