Weel, here's the US government mucking in the affairs of the international community again.
What does it take for independence of the Internet? Just in case the government still hasn't gotten past the part of Al Gore inventing the Internet, I've got news for you - he didn't.
The particular ruling denied the creation of a '.xxx' TLD, that would have been reserved for pr0n. The people that were against this are the same people that are against the sites existing in the first place - the family activists. What they don't realize is that the creation of that TLD would have enabled filtering to be much easier.
I'm not personally in favor of pr0n exisiting on the Internet that is accessible by minors, especially where they can accidentally run across it (think www.whitehouse.com). With all of it in a '.xxx' domain, it would be extremely easy to spot it, block it, or if not blocked, just not click on it.
Oh well. Emotion prevails over common sense, again.
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