What am I missing here ?

sarettah · 01-22-2005

Is it just me or does this guy really not understand the whole internet apparatus too awful well ?

At first I thought he was advocating a .sex extension be added to the registry, then I wasn't too sure. Then he says something about ISPs making money by selling the names and that money pays for the filters and that is where my brain just kind of melted...

http://www.wjactv.com/technology/4115752/detail.html

Bill Would Create 'Dot-Sex' To Filter Porn Web Sites
Delegate Hopes To Block Pornographic Sites From Minors

UPDATED: 10:38 AM EST January 21, 2005

ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Despite the best filters, pornography could still find its way onto children's computer screens -- but perhaps not for long.

A Maryland lawmaker believes he has come up with a simple, cost-free way to block online pornography, television station WBAL reported.

Even the most innocent, innocuous commands while searching the Internet can turn up sites that make parents blush and dive for the delete button, the station reported.

The solution? Calling porn what it is by adding ".sex" to the end of the Web site address.

"As a parent, I have this wonderful research tool available that has so many land mines that are out there that I don't want to have to explain to my children," said Delegate Michael Smigiel Sr.

Smigiel, who is the House Deputy Minority Whip, brainstormed what he called a simple solution that he's confident will receive wide support in the state's General Assembly.

"This bill would require that any sexually-explicit materials sent over the Internet to have a suffix of dot-sex," Smigiel said.

"Dot sex" would be easy for computer filters to weed out because the material would be flagged at the Internet service provider level, the port where online information travels. That way, material adults deem unfit for children wouldn't find their way into schools, libraries or home offices, the station said.

"They [ISPs] will be able to afford to do this because they could sell those names, ... [they would be] able to sell that name for what the market would allow that money would be used to put in these filters," Smigiel said.

The bill is being filled as a commercial law, not a criminal matter. ISPs that do not comply would be fined $1,000 per violation.

According to Smigiel, the feedback so far is universal.

"What took so long? Why didn't anybody think of this before?" he said others say.

cj · 01-22-2005

>Why didn't anybody think of this before?

um, because its fucking stupid?!

dumbass

now if he had've said a .kids extension and had microsoft or disney as a partner, then he'd be onto something

Eddie · 01-22-2005

Why don't they just create a .kid and if parents are worred they can have a special browser that only goes to .kid sites? Seems like a MUCH better solution to me....

kath · 01-22-2005

Quote:

Originally posted by Eddie@Jan 21 2005, 11:55 PM
Why don't they just create a .kid and if parents are worred they can have a special browser that only goes to .kid sites? Seems like a MUCH better solution to me....

They have this option available already @ New.net.... was looking into this already today. Another TLD downloadable browser thingie, but if people are that worried, freaked or want another excuse to not monitor what their kids are doing, it would be helpful.

I'm with you - wasn't sure what this guy's REAL motive was.... sounds like he's either really, really stupid or that he owns an ISP and thinks he can make some money off this.... no wait, that's still just really, really stupid. lol

BillPMB · 01-22-2005

Let's see, how easy is it to filter the state of Maryland out of a router......hmmmm pretty fucking easy.

What'd be better if more parents paid more attention to what their fuck trophies were doing.

Kick the bastards out the door and hand them a ball or a pack of sidewalk chalk and see if they have enough imagination to have some fun like a kid.

XXXPhoto · 01-22-2005

Sidewalk chalk... lol

My girls go through box of that crayola stuff every week in summer; driveway looks like some faded grateful dead concert tshirt from June til Sept... lol

Almighty Colin · 01-22-2005

The idea has come up many times. Quite a few in the industry itself were advocating it about the time of CDA (1997) over fears of freesites being shutdown and a "slippery rope" effect.

Nickatilynx · 01-22-2005

Quote:

Originally posted by BillPMB@Jan 22 2005, 05:12 AM
Let's see, how easy is it to filter the state of Maryland out of a router......hmmmm pretty fucking easy.

What'd be better if more parents paid more attention to what their fuck trophies were doing.

Kick the bastards out the door and hand them a ball or a pack of sidewalk chalk and see if they have enough imagination to have some fun like a kid.

Exactly!!!!!!!

VooMan · 01-22-2005

Quote:

Originally posted by BillPMB@Jan 22 2005, 08:12 AM

What'd be better if more parents paid more attention to what their fuck trophies were doing.

Fuck trophies... now THAT is a classic term! HAHAHAHAHA

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