.xxx Comments ???

[babymaker]

here is my response to ICANN, let me know how it is:

As a business owner and internet surfer as well as a parent, I must object to the proposed formation by ICANN of the .XXX TLD. The .XXX TLD will not provide any further protection than is already in place, from various freely available parental control software programs, to keep children away from mature themed content, pornographic or otherwise, it will only start the internet as a whole on a slippery slope of unnecessary censorship and governmental control. In addition to unwanted censorship, the proposed .XXX TLD will also unfairly target a legitimate business that has diligently since its inception fought against the victimization of children, namely though industry funded organizations that seek out child predators and child pornographers and work with authorities in adding there capture and ultimate prosecution.

A more viable alternative to the proposed .XXX TLD would be to implement the formation of a .KIDS TLD, which would be regulated at the registration level, preventing any interest or organization from purchasing and using a .KIDS domain name for anything other than a web site gear towards children’s education and entertainment.

In conclusion, I would like to point out that never was the internet intended for children, or to be used as a child’s unmonitored “babysitter”, the internet is a microcosm of the world itself and therefore is a very dangerous, but exciting place to explore and learn as well as interact with various culture’s and to do business. By starting the slippery slope of internet censorship regulated by governmental bodies, opposed to self-censorship started in the home or by the individual themselves, we will find ourselves collectively with an internet that no one, myself included will want to visit!

Sincerely,

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