It's way overdue. It will not impede adults from accessing porn while making it easier for those who want to avoid it do so -- including parents for their kids. The range of ******** AND WAY BEYOND is too crazy to leave on the mainstream web. Some of the $h!t I've seen... well, just when you thought you've seen it all, Two Girls One Cup comes along!
And, yes, that should even include Playboy. Publications like Maxim, otoh, where we're talking revealing clothing but not actual nudity (maybe a little butt cheek and cleavage -- what would be "cheesecake shots" today) -- AND it's at least interspersed with actual articles and opinion columns -- while obviously geared towards MEN and not kids I think should stay in the .com realm.
The comparison to Amsterdam is ridiculous. There is NOTHING culturally redeeming at say, http://throatgaggers.com/ (never been there before, I just had a hunch that domain would exist -- too easy a guess). And yet, even though I personally think that the "Piss Christ"... er... "piece of art" is totally idiotic I would think it would go under the .com umbrella ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ ). And Helmut Newton? I say .com -- even though a Google flagged a webpage I just clicked on through an image search as being known to be dangerous to my computer -- if I used Windows ( http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://ytodolodemastambien.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/helmut-newton1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.datakun.com/wp/helmut-newton.html&usg=__GYx4uJqWSscNMUzmMXHrdzvgUGw=&h=1024&w=828&sz=260&hl=en&start=3&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=YFxOiA9KxnLm7M:&tbnh=150&tbnw=121&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhelmut%2Bnewton%2Bphotos%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Den%26tbs%3Disch:1 )
Having said all that I know interpretation would be difficult and whoever decides what goes where will surely get some things wrong. But my God, just imagine how much ******** spam and tricks will be rendered inert? Yeah, not all -- but a lot!
It's the lessor of two evils and I'm all for it.
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