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Tickler, it would be very hard to move protected free speech into a situation where it can easily be blocked or restricted by third parties. Imagine all adult sites on port 81. Imagine all "christian" ISPs and bandwidth providers refusing to carry port 81 traffic. It would only take one or two of the big backbone providers to pull this and the adult internet would effectively be unavailable in large parts of the world - or the routing to get there would be entirely too slow to make it functional.
Any move that restricts constitutionally protected free speech (even the DoJ has admitted that some adult material is legal) would almost certainly meet up with a legal challenge that would lock this thing up in knots for a long time to come.
I wouldn't expect ASACP to be leading the charge on that one, so I was confused when they came out with a stand and opinion on .xxx when it was announced. FSC should have one, that is for sure, but a company protecting against CP isn't exactly on the front lines of that deal.
Alex
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