Politech: Mark Kernes on why .xxx is bad for adult entertainment industry [fs]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[Jason Hendeles is involved with the current application for .xxx, which 
I wrote about here (http://news.com.com/2010-1026-5176611.html). --Declan]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Politech] Weekly column: the battle over .xxx [fs]
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:03:24 EST
From: MarkKernes () aol com
To: declan () well com


In a message dated 3/23/04 1:17:18 AM, declan () well com writes:

<< By the end of this year, Internet users could have an extraordinarily
convenient place to find pornography: a new .xxx top-level domain. >>

A guy named Jason Hendeles approached the Free Speech Coalition (the 
trade association of the adult entertainment industry) last year to 
support his own plan for a .xxx TLD; he even offered to cut us in with a 
seat on the domain's governing board and a ($) piece of each 
application. We rejected the idea, since it will *inevitably* lead to 
ghettoization of not only hardcore sites, but everything currently in 
question under the COPA case. Filters exist; let those worried about 
porn use them!
Mark Kernes, AVN

"Some play the game. Some go home." — Greta (Meg Foster), Carny



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