The Internet's primary oversight body approved a plan Wednesday to create a virtual red-light district, setting the stage for pornographic Web sites to use new addresses ending in "xxx"

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In sum, this is going to start a constitutional fireworks show.
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.XXX is simply a bad choice for a domain name. They should have used .SEX. XXX implies hard core porn. SEX is far more likely to be acceptable to a wider range of websites and I think would result in fewer legal battles. For example, sites about sex education would love to be listed under .sex, but would refuse to be classified as XXX. However, the conservative christians will want them clumped into the red light district so they can block them more easily, and so the fireworks...

[ But dude "SEX" is a dirty word. Just having that word entered into the official cannon of standard address suffixes would be an offense to Jesus Christ himself. Acceptance of people's interest in sex is a sign of the end times. -k]

CNN.com - Stage set for '.xxx' Internet addresses - Jun 2, 2005