Saturday, March 19, 2011

The red lantern lights up Internet

After almost more than a decade of denial, controversy and, above all, much lobbying, the international body governing Internet domain names (ICANN) meeting in Silicon Valley, just give the decisive approval to begin shipping the suffix. to identify the portals xxx porn. The adult entertainment industry may well have their own red light district on the network.

The way was cleared last summer, when ICANN in August gave its provisional approval to the request made by the ICM log signature. But until we have the final approval of its board of directors, no one wanted to claim victory. The triple X domain has already been rejected three times before since it was first proposed in 2000.


Stuart Lawley, ICM responsible, had been advocating since then that this extension will allow better classify adult content mass flowing over the network and, thus, the filtering software will be more effective in identifying the content of this nature . In this way, parents can keep these sites away from children.

It is estimated that there are now 370 million Web sites with pornographic content. Many are camouflaged under misleading names and general domains, like. com, to escape censorship. Therefore, now is to see how many sites choose to use the suffix. xxx. There is also a problem in defining what is meant by pornography.

During these years, the religious lobbyists and defense of the family as the Family Research Council, launched an intense campaign of opposition because he believes that the porn industry "will expand its Internet empire of evil." Conservative governments were also opposed to being given the final green light to the application of ICM Registry.

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