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Unintended consequences & ICANN's blessing of *.xxx TLDD
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 19:48:27 -0400
Begin forwarded message:From: "Synthesis: Law and Technology" <synthesis.law.and.technology () gmail com>
Date: June 3, 2005 7:34:47 PM EDT To: dave () farber netSubject: Re: [IP] Unintended consequences & ICANN's blessing of *.xxx TLDD Reply-To: "Synthesis: Law and Technology" <synthesis.law.and.technology () gmail com>
Dave, This certainly has sparked some great dabate and interesting ideas. On this one I'm not sure how the mere presence of a tld shifts anything. Every adult website I've seen has a button to click to signify both acceptance of content and some sort of age declaration. Does anyone think that this button will magically go away? The site owners still need to have some 'click' on the age of the person browsing. When it was dot.com is there any question that there was willingness to receive adult content 99.999% of the time? Of course there was willingness most of the time. Teenagers will be teenagers. There just was a problem of validating parental approval or age. So while I agree that there will be unintended consequences I don't see that this will be one of them. Does the fact that your browser lets you access the dot ex ex ex mean mommy and daddy approve? I seriously doubt it. It could mean junior isnt supposed to be on the computer or it could mean the nannyware isnt working or it could mean someone other than the trusted children (like a friend that comes home with the kids) is using it. I'm sure there are many other scenarios. Dan Steinberg SYNTHESIS:Law & Technology 35, du Ravin phone: (613) 794-5356 Chelsea, Quebec J9B 1N1 On 6/3/05, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: Dennis Allison <allison () shasta stanford edu> Date: June 3, 2005 7:01:15 PM EDT To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Unintended consequences & ICANN's blessing of *.xxx TLDD Dave, I seems to me that the *.xxx TLD has some significant and possibly unintended consequences.For one thing, the *.xxx TLD seems to me to shift the responsibility foraccess control back to the user and his/her browser and away from the web site owner since any site in the TLD clearly and by design announces that it contains adult-content. The providers will no longer need to pussy-foot (no pun intended) around and worry about under-age access control since the mere use of the *.xxx TLD indicated willingness to accept adult material.I am not a lawyer; I'd be interested in what some of the lawyers on thelist have to say on this issue. ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as synthesis.law.and.technology () gmail com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ipArchives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting- people/
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