Today we learned that ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) agreed to allow a domain of .xxx. Now, internet pornography distributors will use this domain to publish their filth on the internet legitimately and won't have to hide behind domains such as .com.A Parable: It is like if there was a place in a neighborhood where everyone could get the drugs they wanted. That place is illegal, but no one is doing anything to stop them so they continue their business. The neighborhood HOA decides just to make that drug place a legitimate address. Therefore, people know exactly where they need to go to get their drugs. That is what the .xxx domain is doing for those addicted to and enticed by pornography.
I found this article on fox news that tells more about it (Anyone else have a problem with the almost pornographic picture they use in the article?). Even the porn industry was against the domain (for the wrong reasons of course). So why did ICANN approve it? Money.
I sense a future action item coming up. Because I am trying to motivate and organize people locally in my community we need to make our voices heard about this matter where we live. Let's write to our internet providers asking them to block .xxx domains from their service.
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