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[Christopher <weblionx AT gmail.com>]

The whole point is that it's a voluntary system. Right now, you can
have any kind of site under .com. But lots of sites voluntarily use(d)
IRCA labels to mark their content as mature so people can avoid that
content when they want to.

> you would run into troubles after the first people registered a 
> "cigarette.adult", "marihuana.adult", "drivers-license.adult", or some such 
> domain.

Why would they? That makes no sense.

> 2. because there is no such rule, an .adult TLD would probably end in 
> censorship sooner or later - or defy itself.

Again, why? Why would it end in censorship? Why would it be any more
likely to be censored than .porn? I don't understand any of your
reasoning.

- c "wlx" r

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:17 PM, subhuman <discipline AT gmx.net> wrote:
> that wouldn't be the same thing.
> 1. there is no general rule/ no supernational law that defines "adult". for 
> instance, you would run into troubles after the first people registered a 
> "cigarette.adult", "marihuana.adult", "drivers-license.adult", or some such 
> domain.
> 2. because there is no such rule, an .adult TLD would probably end in 
> censorship sooner or later - or defy itself.
>
> --martin
>
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:52:40 -0500
> Christopher <weblionx AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd rather have a general "adult" domain than .porn. A TLD for sites
>> that aren't necessarily for porn, but might contain other graphic or
>> "restricted" subjects, such as extreme violence, substance use and so
>> on.
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