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Thursday, June 16, 2005

Dot XXX Is A Farce

You have probably all read about this on World Net Daily but here is a little more on it.
Why would a money grubbing porno freak "volunteer" to move his web sites to an XXX domain name? Because he is a nice guy? Because he is concerned about the neighborhood? Bunk!
Stupid idea. Michael Reagan is behind this. It is just plane silly. To try to require porno freaks to move their sites would be overturned in the courts. Here is a email from my friend Pat Trueman former candidate for 6th District here in Minnesota and former part of Reagan- Bush's Committee on obscenity and Senior Legal Counsel for the Family Research Council. He can talk pretty plain when he needs to and has more expertise on this subject than just about anybody in the US.

Note that Michael Reagan (son of Pres. Reagan) is pushing Congress to pass a law, to be called the "Michael Reagan Online Child Protection Act" requiring pornographer to locate on the .xxx domain on the notion that "then I can block anything that is .xxx coming into my home." Unfortunately, it is not that simple. He would still have to block porn on the .com domain. Pornographers will not willingly go to .xxx, just because there is a law. There already is a law prohibiting them from selling hardcore porn, yet they have been doing it for years and they can be prosecuted under federal obscenity or RICO laws which not only provide very heavy fines and jail time but also forfeiture of all their assets. So what is needed is not another new law -- which will likely be tied up in the courts for years -- but vigorous prosecution of current obscenity laws. Attorney General Gonzales is on his way to doing this. Also, all law requiring pornographers to move is constitutionally suspect. Pornography is presumptively protected under the 1st Amendment so until the material is shown to be obscene or child pornography, it is protected speech. Thus all pornographers on the .com will argue that their material has not been shown to be obscene and thus they cannot be forced to move to .xxx. That is why I say that the .xxx gives false hope to parents.
This new idea can still be stopped in the Commerece Department if we have the resolve but I highly doubt that it will happen.
Compromised men and women are everywhere. It is like drug addicts trying to stop drugs.

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