The ".xxx" TLD

I read today that Some lower-level technology guy in the Commerce department has asked ICANN to slow down the execution of a .xxx TLD (top Level Domain) at the request of convervatives writing letters.

The department received nearly 6,000 letters and e-mails expressing concerns about the impact of pornography on families and children and objecting to setting aside a domain suffix for it, he said.

"The volume of correspondence opposed to creation of a .xxx TLD (domain name) is unprecedented," Gallagher wrote to Vinton Cerf, ICANN's chairman.

And again, I hang my head in shame over stupid people who have currently invaded the republican political party.

Ok, first of all, if you send a "letter" to the commerce department, you have no business advising them on INTERNET policy. Period. Go buy an elvis stamp and maybe one day you'll get lucky enough to get an AOL CD in the mail and get yourself a an email address.

Second, the reason we need a .xxx TLD is BECAUSE OF YOU!!!!... Yea, that's right YOU, Mrs. Potato Salad living in suburban square state... You're the ones constantly prattling on about how much pornography is on the internet and how you get unsolicited emails inviting you to go to porn sites, all the while the porn industry racks up billions in sales from your husbands and teenage boys when you're at Super Wal-Mart buying groceries. You are the ones we're creating the .xxx domain for. You're constant chants of "protect the children, protect the children" are the only reason to have a .xxx TLD ...to allow filtering software to block .xxx content at places where such content will cause harm or is organizationally undesirable... e.g. Schools, Corporations, (and if you get your way) Libraries.

So rather than shoot down the people actually trying to HELP YOU why don't you go boycott disney, attend a pro-life rally or deny a marriage certficate to a lesbian couple somewhere... Do something with your life other than stick your nose into everyone else's computers (and bedrooms).

Oh, and BTW, Mrs. Suburban Square State, Your husband is having an affair with the Asian chick who foams the milk at Starbucks and your son blew me in bathroom at Borders last night. All of us correspond by email and IM and none of it would be considered internet porn under ICANN's current plan.