[IP] Unintended consequences & ICANN's blessing of *.xxx TLDD
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From: Dennis Allison <allison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 3, 2005 7:01:15 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
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 for
access 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 the
list have to say on this issue.
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