Originally Posted by u-Bob

"Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at."

Under capitalism, people are free to choose not to do business with people they don't like or whose behavior or ideas they don't approve of.

Even if you don't bring your own personal opinions into it, it may still be beneficial to ban certain tlds. A TGP owner like Shemp has little to lose by banning .xxx galleries, but could gain some extra traffic, submitters, ad buyers etc by putting out a press release stating that he as "a TGP expert with years of experience in the online adult industry" agrees with Manwin on the issue of the .xxx tld. Hell, I even took a look at his Gold Accounts purely because of this thread.

I do understand where you are coming from. You as a designer obviously sell different services than Shemp does and banning .xxx clients would obviously have different impactions for you. In the end every business owner decides for himself what his principles are worth to him. And in the end every business owner decides for himself how to best make use of the opportunities that present themselves. Making an anti-.xxx statement does not necessarily mean giving up potential clients, it could (in the case of Shemp) simply be an opportunity to get extra exposure. It all depends on ones own business model, client base, potential client base, services offered,... It's a decision every business owner can only make for himself.