Related links: http://www.icann.org/correspondence/gallagher-to-cerf-15aug05.pdf http://news.com.com/2100-7352_3-5833912.html --- http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=PR05F07 FRC Urges Supporters to Oppose .XXX Domain June 17, 2005 - Friday FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 17, 2005 CONTACT: Amber Hildebrand, (202) 393-2100 Washington, D.C. -- Family Research Council has launched an effort to mobilize its supporters against the proposal to establish a .XXX domain for porn Webs sites. Tony Perkins, President of Family Research Council released the following statement on www.frc.org earlier today: "Pornographers will be given even more opportunities to flood our homes, libraries and society with pornography through the .XXX domain. The Internet Corporation for Assigning Names and Numbers (ICANN), the Internet's nonprofit body with authority for development, has indicated that it will establish an .XXX domain for porn Web sites. To some this may initially seem like a good idea but it is one that has been considered and rejected as ineffectual for years. This will NOT require pornographers who are on the .com domain to relocate to the .XXX domain. "Some naively suggest that passing a new law to force pornographers to move to .XXX will solve the problem but that will not work either. Law means nothing to hardcore pornographers. There already is a law prohibiting them from selling hardcore porn on the Internet-anywhere on the Internet- yet they have been doing if for years. "Attorney General Gonzales is launching a major effort to prosecute the porn industry. He intends to smash these criminal enterprises on the Internet and elsewhere with a new obscenity strike force. This is the only way to handle hardcore pornographers. "The .XXX domain will increase not decrease porn on the Internet." Perkins ends his message with a call to action for Family Research Council supporters to get in touch with the Commerce Department and ICANN to voice their opposition to the .XXX domain. -30- _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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