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Originally Posted by Anthony
I'm just waiting for the inevitable blocking of .xxx by more countries. Enough of them block it, the less anyone will care.
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This keeps coming up, and what I find most troubling is that people seem to be under the impression that the ability to block adult content is only possible with the .XXX extension. Whole countries already have the ability to block content, and DO. China does, India does, Australia is on it's way, and the UK's top 4 ISP's are now on an opt-in for adult content system.
None of that has anything at all to do with a domain suffix. It has everything to do with censorship, and suppressing the right to free expression. Part of the reason that IFFOR receives such a significant portion of each domain registration is to assure that they have the funds necessary to adhere to their policy goals, which includes protecting free expression rights. IFFOR recently addressed this in a press release which you can read here:
http://iffor.org/news/pc-first-meeting.html