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NO RED LIGHT DISTRICT FOR THE 'NET

No, you'll just have to delete and erase your porno and sleeze from your computer yourself! My computer is out in the middle of my living room and I check my kid's emails every single day. Also they are not allowed on social networking or chat.

This is distrubing - anyone, including our children, can surf into porn accidentally. I personally, can no longer look at or read anything mildly pornographic without setting off an anxiety attack due to prior abuse. Believe me, deleting stuff (mostly how to make various private areas bigger... like I NEED that!) from my email is a daily chore I dread. So thanks a lot ICANN! (not)
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For now, no red light district for the Internet
By Ben Charny, MarketWatch

SAN FRANCISCO -- An Internet governing body on Friday rejected a proposal to create a unique set of Web addresses for adult entertainment Web sites.

The decision sends the broader message that the governing body, known as ICANN, refuses to assume a new role as regulator of content found on the Internet, say ICANN executives.

ICANN, or Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, had been asked to create a specific set of Web addresses that end in .xxx, and then assign them to porn sites and other sources of adult entertainment.

Supporters of the proposal say it would make it easier to safeguard against children viewing the material, along with a host of other benefits. On Friday, an executive from a leading adult entertainment provider indicated the industry's set to sue ICANN in order to reverse the decision.

Vint Cerf, the Google Inc. senior executive who is also chairman of ICANN, said the board's decision had nothing to do with the actual content of the sites in question.

Rather, the rejection came because the proposal could be seen as ICANN creating rules effecting Internet content, which is at odds with its mandate to oversee the way Internet operates in order to ensure open and fair participation by all.

"To assume an ongoing management and oversight role regarding Internet content is inconsistent with ICANN's technical mandate," read a rejection of the .xxx proposal adopted by the ICANN board.

"I believe that we have to guard very carefully against ICANN ever becoming a regulator in that sense, and it's for that reason, and that reason alone, that I would cast my vote against the proposed agreement," said ICANN board member Steve Goldstein.

When asked at a press event later in the day if the board would ever revisit the issue, Cerf said "over my dead body."

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