[Politech] Mark Kernes on why .xxx is bad for adult entertainment industry [fs]

From: Declan McCullagh (declan@private)
Date: Tue Mar 30 2004 - 21:47:25 PST

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    [Jason Hendeles is involved with the current application for .xxx, which 
    I wrote about here (http://news.com.com/2010-1026-5176611.html). --Declan]
    
    
    -------- Original Message --------
    Subject: Re: [Politech] Weekly column: the battle over .xxx [fs]
    Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:03:24 EST
    From: MarkKernes@private
    To: declan@private
    
    
    In a message dated 3/23/04 1:17:18 AM, declan@private writes:
    
    << By the end of this year, Internet users could have an extraordinarily
    convenient place to find pornography: a new .xxx top-level domain. >>
    
    A guy named Jason Hendeles approached the Free Speech Coalition (the 
    trade association of the adult entertainment industry) last year to 
    support his own plan for a .xxx TLD; he even offered to cut us in with a 
    seat on the domain's governing board and a ($) piece of each 
    application. We rejected the idea, since it will *inevitably* lead to 
    ghettoization of not only hardcore sites, but everything currently in 
    question under the COPA case. Filters exist; let those worried about 
    porn use them!
    
    Mark Kernes, AVN
    
    "Some play the game. Some go home." — Greta (Meg Foster), Carny
    
    
    
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