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Originally Posted by FightThisPatent
Pipe dream outcome:
.XXX gets approved
congress passes a law to make .XXX mandatory
obscenity cases for violating community standards is no longer prosecutable because a .XXX labeling law would show federal/national acceptance of the content.
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This alternate universe should put the fear of god in religious folks to do what they can to ensure .XXX does not get created to lead to this ending
Fight the unintended consequences! |
There's really no way that unintended consequence could occur. The very nature of the Miller test defies the notion of having a national/federal standard -- the whole idea is that each individual community (as problematic as that term is) is subject to its own 'standard,' which is defined by a jury selected from the given community, only AFTER an indictment is entered.
Second, this pipe dream hypothetical also assumes that .XXX's content policies would be open enough to approve all the same types and categories of content that we currently publish on our .coms. This is hardly a given, as ICM has not proposed any set of best practices or content policies yet (correct me if I'm wrong) and IFFOR, the body that would be responsible for setting such policies, has not been defined yet, itself.
This brings me around to my primary reason for being against .XXX:
I don't know what it is.
Personally, I have a very hard time supporting things that are pretty much entirely undefined. It's like being asked to back a politician without being told who they are, which party they belong to, or what their platform is. No thanks.