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'.Sex' Domain Bill
Lawmaker has entirely unoriginal idea
(old news - 02:05PM Friday Jan 21 2005)
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A Maryland lawmaker has come up with an ingenious (and highly original idea) of creating a ".sex" domain to control the flow of pornography - according to a local Maryland news outlet. "What took so long? Why didn't anybody think of this before?" are among the responses the lawmaker says he's received to the idea. Of course his law would be totally useless as it pertained to the global internet, and ICANN has been considering a ".XXX" domain for as long as we can remember. Other than that, a smashing idea.

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Viper007Bond
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Awesome idea

Awesome idea for a domain name and I bet a lotta sites would use it, I doubt many would switch and no way in hell all would comply.

Still, some being on it is better than none and easier for parents to filter out while giving prono sites a cool domain ending.
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Re: Awesome idea

Frankly, I think it should be a ".CUM" domain. It kinda has a nice ring to it.
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Re: Awesome idea

said by 91439306 See Profile:

Frankly, I think it should be a ".CUM" domain. It kinda has a nice ring to it.
I like that idea .cum Everything just flows with it.

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Awwww, ya beat me to it .

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Re: Awesome idea

I ain't going to touch THAT one ROFLMAO

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Re: Awesome idea

How'bout .ass ? Eh ?...does it kick ass or what ?!

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lol! You'd think they would have thought of that It works though .cum sounds better than .sex
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Well, here's another perfect example of what's wrong with our governmnet... it's our legilstors...

It appears they can't contorl their own lives so they think this gives them the right to try and control someoene elses.

This is typical... here's another grand idea... that's not likely going to work very well.

I doubt the delegate / represenative has any idea how to force hosted sites in other countries how to comply with this strong arm kind of tactic. You know, some folks think that if they legilate it into law, everyone on the planet must comply.

So far as I know, one world government hasn't yet been put into effect.

Now, perhaps the person proposing this will go think up another winning piece of unenforcable legislation... I got it... all phone #'s dialing into the state of Md must begin with a "0" !!

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Re: Awesome idea

This isn't for the whole world. This is for simply the US. If the rest of the world wants to comply, so be it. No one is going to force them. Somebody likes their porn too much.
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Oh, He's Got A Plan...

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said by I_D_I_O_T:

I doubt the delegate / representative has any idea how to force hosted sites in other countries how to comply with this strong arm kind of tactic. You know, some folks think that if they legislate it into law, everyone on the planet must comply.
Results of the mission are shown here:

»www.vampirebat.com/war/jdamboom.mpg


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Re: Oh, He's Got A Plan...

said by John Galt See Profile:

said by I_D_I_O_T:

I doubt the delegate / representative has any idea how to force hosted sites in other countries how to comply with this strong arm kind of tactic. You know, some folks think that if they legislate it into law, everyone on the planet must comply.
Results of the mission are shown here:

»www.vampirebat.com/war/jdamboom.mpg


Damn! That was a killer video! Heh

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Re: Oh, He's Got A Plan...

Looks like it missed... !

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Re: Oh, He's Got A Plan...

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Looks like it missed... !
I am sure that the target was well within the crater area...!


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"What took so long? Why didn't anybody think of this before?" he said others say.

Apparently the senator doesnt know for somethings you dont think with your head

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Re: Awesome idea

said by rajanurs See Profile:

"What took so long? Why didn't anybody think of this before?" he said others say.

Apparently the senator doesnt know for somethings you dont think with your head
At least the big one...!
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yes...

might as well

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hmmmmmm

as the ideas just roll in my mind..
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Re: hmmmmmm

yeah I am paitently waiting in line for 5 domains now

anal.sex
oral.sex
vaginal.sex
amazing.sex
earthshattering.sex

me thinks those domains would fetch a decent price on the market hehe.
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Re: hmmmmmm

said by BosstonesOwn See Profile:

earthshattering.sex
Thanks for the laugh

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How about awesome.sex?

(The proposed domain, not the proposition)

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said by BosstonesOwn See Profile:

yeah I am paitently waiting in line for 5 domains now

anal.sex
oral.sex
vaginal.sex
amazing.sex
earthshattering.sex
you forgot gay.sex
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Re: hmmmmmm

said by mrchris See Profile:

said by BosstonesOwn See Profile:

yeah I am paitently waiting in line for 5 domains now

anal.sex
oral.sex
vaginal.sex
amazing.sex
earthshattering.sex
you forgot gay.sex
After last week I really wanna forget about it. I still can't sit down

Yeah Im joking don't get to upset
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Viper007Bond
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Wait a minute...

quote:
'.Sex' Domain Bill
Lawmaker has entirely unoriginal idea
quote:
ingenious (and highly original idea)
Am I missing something?
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Re: Wait a minute...

Yes, sarcasm detection software.

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Re: Wait a minute...

LMAO.....

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said by Karl Bode See Profile:

Yes, sarcasm detection software.
lol!

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I have tears from that one, very nice
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said by Karl Bode See Profile:

Yes, sarcasm detection software.
haha, zing. Karl > Alex :P
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Re: Wait a minute...

Whoops theres goes my keyboard after the spit take. I guess I should not drink and read at the computer.

Viper007Bond
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lol, I'm retarded.

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LMAO that was great! lol lol

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Maybe the sarcasm?

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This idea or similar ideas. Have been getting passed around more than a street walker on crack. So that comment was basically stating. Gee wow - you've stole the idea of another. When are we going to stop talking and get something enacted. Or something to that effect. I've not seen any proposals I've liked so far. But the general idea if implemented properly has merit.
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said by Viper007Bond See Profile:


quote:
'.Sex' Domain Bill
Lawmaker has entirely unoriginal idea
quote:
ingenious (and highly original idea)
Am I missing something?
That depends. While the creation of a .SEX domain MAY be original (I'm not sure), the "unoriginal" reference was to the creation of SOME domain to segregate these domains into. I seem to remember the suggestion of (or it might even have been a bid to act as the Registrar for) a .XXX Domain (which bid/offer/suggestion as rejected by the PTB in charge of Authorizing new domain suffixes).
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bad idea

My problem here is how do you draw the line between a sex site and non-sex site? I would hate for .com's to self censor themselves to avoid being lumped into the .sex domain.

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Why didn't I think of that!

Of course, the fact that he's a STATE legislator, and that nothing he does can affect any other STATE, let alone country, doesn't count...

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Dennis
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anyone remember .info

Finally when they create a new domain and it's over run with porn it will be a good thing!

Next they should create a .pokr and .small-pee-pee domain.
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Re: anyone remember .info

Not to mention .dumbass for legislators who propose laws like this one. Did anyone even bother to read the article?
"They [ISPs] will be able to afford to do this because they could sell those names, ... [they would be] able to sell that name for what the market would allow that money would be used to put in these filters," Smigiel said.

The bill is being filled as a commercial law, not a criminal matter. ISPs that do not comply would be fined $1,000 per violation.
And I thought Illinois was full of legislative idiots. Good thing Maryland has no jurisdiction.
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Much Easier

...for parents to filter their childrens' surf habits.

Don't get me wrong; I don't like censorship in general-but parents are obligated (IMO) to censor their childrens' internet exposure to sites that are "grown-up"...

Nothing wrong with "porn", when the peruser is "of age"...

Or should I say "pr0n"?

But I agree with prior posters who wonder if .com sites will comply. More must be done, but I have no suggestions.

This might be a good first step to help netizens control the amount of "undesirable" traffic that is slammed into their boxen...

Great thread.
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cevans59
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Re: Much Easier

I would be nice if domain owners would voluntarily comply, but it will never happen. Would make it easier for me to filter for the kids and easier for me to find
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wow u think smarter then average kids cant find away around everything set to stop them its hard and can be done if u just pulled the plug besides that its impossible unless of course ur watching the him the whole time
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Re: Much Easier

You're right any kid worth his/hers salt can get around filters. The point of filters/warning dialogs is to help prevent accidental exposure from sites that either aren't clear about content or are intentionally misleading.
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Re: Much Easier

Filters are useful to make soccer moms feel good. after all billy-bob just demolished some player(s) on the opposing football team, but heaven forbid, a nipple shows.

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The existing porn sites would more than likely simply keep their current domain and also register and keep a .sex domain. That way whether you type "hustler.com" or "hustler.sex" you'd get the same site. This situation would in all likelihood continue indefinitely. Eventually more reputable sites would probably disable the other domains, but retain ownership of them to ward off fakers.
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How long did that idea take to get out?

Ive heard this talked about several times, but never in the news.......

My child will soon figure out where I hid the IE icon. I do not want him browsing until I can figure out a easy way to filter at my router.

Creating this domain would be very helpful to parents. I cant think of how the ordinary computer user will be able to do this without hours and hours of research and or spending the buck to have someone else set filtering up. Not to mention school systems, librarys, etc.

How hard can it be to block a domain?

hosts file:
*.sex 127.0.0.1

easy................

Will the pr0n sites comply? I think out of common sense and respect for parents they would, which is a pipe dream. It should be mandatory. If The USA led the way, others will follow.

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Oh wow

what a great Idea.....which was being discussed over five years ago.

Some law makers make me think of dark age cloistered Christian monks. Many grew up as babies dropped off at these monasteries. These monks grew up NEVER! having seen a female. When one showed up they thought they were looking at a demon, of which they may have had a point.;)

The point is the idiot lawmakers are so ignorant of what they are trying to regulate, and they never get it right.
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Re: Oh wow

I knew it had been discussed before, but I thought it was way longer than 5 years (it's already 2005 now).
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Re: Oh wow

said by Vvian Kalyss See Profile:

I knew it had been discussed before, but I thought it was way longer than 5 years (it's already 2005 now).
Phooey you are right, I remember the .sex I thing back in 1995. 10 years !!! time flies:D
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Another domain extention

how about .bribed or .payed-off or .stupid-patents .
Probably a hell of a lot more I am missing. The bribed and payed-off are for congress and other lawmakers and people that make sites about those people. stupid-patents is self explanitory with all the patent grabs.
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Re: Another domain extention

maybe we also need a .KISS

KISS = Keep it simple, stupid.

Imagine how much more porn can be watched with all the resources saved from non-bloated websites.

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To Whomever Wrote The Blurb Above

In the blurb above you wrote "according to a local Maryland news outlet". I hate to break it to you but Maryland is on the EAST coast and your link is to KCRA-TV, a local channel on the WEST coast; California to be exact. Hint: stations whose call letters begin with a "K" are in the western half of the country.

FYI, here's the local news outlet.

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Rob13



How about this idea

How about instead of trying to figure out what sites are bad, have good sites give some sort of identification that they are good or child friendly. Use a certain meta tag or something simple like that to signify that they are safe. The filtering of good and bad sites becomes simple at that point. This idea of corralling bad sites or making the bad sites regulate themselves is a waste of time. Software to try and detect bad sites is always flawed and has a tendency to give false positives. The responsible good sites can easily use something simple to signify that they are safe. The only way a kid could see these bad sites now is if someone intentionally lured them into the site by intentionally signifying they are child friendly, in this case they would easily be open to prosecution since they can no longer deny they didn't try to entice them. Basically if you want kids in your site, you as the web master then have to make a conscious decision to do that and then take full responsibility for the content. All other sites need do nothing and should not have to worry about kids seeing their content. If not a perfect idea but I think its more practical then the current solutions
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BRILLIANT!

must be done great ideal brilliant!

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Re: BRILLIANT!

This kind of reminds me of those devices that simulate emergency vehicles flashing lights that make the traffic lights turn green. They make all this fuss about making these devices illegal when the simpler solution is just have the flashing lights turn the traffic lights all red. These illegal devices are now useless and since all traffic is now stopped, it also has the added bonus of making it safer for the emergency vehicles. Leave it to politicians to always find the stupidest solutions to usually simple problems. It's really scary sometimes when you think that these are the kind of people running this world.

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Re: BRILLIANT!

said by Rob13:

It's really scary sometimes when you think that these are the kind of people running this world.
No one else would take the job...!



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Re: BRILLIANT!

i like the .ass idea i wonder if i could preregister kick.ass and kicks.ass hmm

Seriously though there are so many porn sites out their useing keyword padding to get as many hits as possible its not even funny. Think about how many harmless searches kids make with and with out parents around that have porn site results.

Searc h g rated on google and alarge portion of the sites are adult related (not all porn). Search for final fantasy least back when the game ff7 was first out and it turned up pages of hits related to porn sites. You had to dig through 2 or 3 pages or porn hits to find one game related site. The list goes on and on.

Thats when i sent a letter to my states representitives about a adult meta tag that all porn sites in the us and any other country who would enforce it would have to include or face having their site closed. This would do nothing to hurt the sites legitimate hits and would prob increase their hits. Simply put meta=adult search engine has option to filter out or filter for the meta tag. Like googles some what flawed safe search but on steroids. Surfer puts check box by adult sites only punches in his key words and hits search and all he recieves is adult related sites. Surfer put no check mark gets unfiltered results puts check box by no adult and gets all sites witht he meta tag filtered out. Youd could carry this idea even further. Movies music etc meta tags. This would let you target your searches much much beter. It would not subtract from legitimate sites useing elgit key words.

Example of multiples filters being used to find only adult movies and pictures would be.
series of check boxes adult only none movies only none images only none texts only none

Users selects adult only movies none images only inputs search key words clicks search.
Results would show only adult images and no movies(clips) in this example he would still find some hits that were related to adult related stories but because of no check box selected they would be further down in the results while getting no video only sites.

This wouldnt just qoute unqoute protect kids from finding porn but would make it easyer for the porn surfer to find what they want. While at the same time allowing me sence i have no intrest in porn to find what i want with out the massive polution. This would be a good thing for all but those web masters who choose to out and out target childrens searches to increase their websites hits and there for its ammount of profit.
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Re: BRILLIANT!

Oh course the solution in the end, as always, will most likely be what generates the most revenue as opposed to what actually solves the problem. Creating new domains and forcing people to move to them will mean a lot of new registration fees. Also, since this will always be disputed on some level, attorneys will keep busy.

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The internet according to the Maryland Legislature

Geez, all we need is some Maryland state assemblyman dictating internet policy. Stick to fixing what's wrong in Maryland before you attempt to legislate the rest of us you jerk!

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How About Regulating State Legislators?

I have couple of ideas....

All know-nothing legislators from "Mare-lun" have to register their campaign websites under the ".dork" domain. Failure to do so will result in tar and feathering.

All STATE internet legislation taxed at $10,000 per word.

Feds finally exercise PREEMPTION over state attempts to regulate the internet.

God...what is wrong with this eedjet? Is he completely oblivious? This sort of thing was deemed unworkable back in the CDA days. Guess it's not incumbent on MD legislators (would he be an Annapola**hole?)to read before they legislate.
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