James, have you recently attempted to have a book of hate speech published?


I think the analogy is lacking anyway because in the case of looking for a
publisher for your less-than-socially-acceptable content, you are dependent
on the publishers willingness to publish.  Whereas, in the case of the
Internet, you could "publish" any content you want, even if it was
restricted to a certain TLD.  

Remember, other types of industries are restricted to particular extensions
- for instance, .orgs are restricted for use by not-for-profits; the new
.aero is restricted for use by aeronautic concerns.  This allows the public
to identify the sector they are dealing with.  It doesn't limit the content,
just which extensions they could apply for.

-Bonnie

-----Original Message-----
From: James Fiander [mailto:jfiander§nimblehost.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 6:41 PM
To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
Subject: RE: [DNS] international domain news


*SARCASM* GREAT idea!

Give a rating to the internet... */SARCASM*

Maybe we should just make it more like publishing itself... you'd be
surprised how hard it is to get a book of hate speech published... why do
you think they do it on the internet? and (I'm sure) that it is damned near
impossible to get a magazine of underaged porn published... I'm sure that we
could just eliminate the XXX rated content entirely.. and just keep the R18+
which doesn't harm anyone... although extremely demining....

-James


-----Original Message-----
From: David Goldstein [mailto:goldstein_david§yahoo.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 2:41 AM
To: auDA DNS Mailing List
Subject: [DNS] international domain news


Hidden Bedroom Cameras Inspire Video Privacy Bill (Reuters)
Hidden video cameras in bedrooms, bathrooms and other private places
would be outlawed under a bill introduced in Congress that would also
limit pornographic Web sites to an online red-light district.
...
The bill would also require Web sites containing pornography, hate
speech or other material deemed harmful to minors to give up their
".com" Web addresses and register under an adults-only Internet
domain such as ".prn."

http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=internetnews&StoryID=832527

Israel under hack attack (BBC)
Israel has been suffering a barrage of hack attacks since the start
of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000. According to security
firm mi2g, the Israeli domain .il has been the biggest victim of web
defacements over the past three years, suffering 548 of the 1,295
attacks in the Middle East.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1932000/1932750.stm



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