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@dropzone@... Agree. But creating the domains is only part of the issue, the other is worldwide legal measures to move the content. I'd suggest that .XXX is hard core and .AO is anything you wouldn't want your children to see. No barriers to adults, easy to set up home and education routers for security, and even if you are a total luddite the router is not allowed to be sold in your country unless it is preconfigured appropriately. Why do I believe this? Because I live in Australia where we have a total flip called Senator Conroy who plans to monitor every packet I look at ....to protect the kiddies he says! We think he is more interested in ultimate population control than protecting children. Doing this is no silver bullet...but it is arguably the most sensible start and infinitely preferable to doing nothing or to monitoring every packet. I was in the Paris recently and in a Musee d'Orsay I saw a painting called 'The Origin of the World' by Courbet. Is this art? Maybe, but I wouldn't want a bunch of 11 year olds acccessing it on school computers. Letting politicians and bureaucrats decide our social and sexual and political mores can only end in draconian states (China?). Applying draconian laws to offenders who promote inappropriate behaviours to children (drugs and sexuality) is not. I think this will be a win win situation. If I am an education worker I can feel reasonably confident the children are protected, if I am a sex worker I won't get so many time wasters. And if I am a gormless parent who does not care or understand, or worse, believes my little johnny wouldn't do that, I'll have a measure of protection I do not have now. As an I.T. person who has spent countless hours recovering computers from little johnny's foolishness ( click here to get free porn and destroy the planet...click!) I believe that it is not an all or nothing debate, but a what do we monitor and why debate. Unless I am missing it, those who oppose this idea have no alternative that will work.
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