Iceland campaigns to restrict internet porn

[jmowreader]

120. It would be far more expensive than you think

Right now the ISPs have an out: they serve thousands of sites and can't afford to examine every image and video to make sure it's not porn. If an ISP were to serve .xxx domains the fundamentalists WOULD inform the press. Worse, they'd track down the non-.xxx companies using an .xxx-serving host and make it real clear those companies were supporting (fill in your fave antiporn attack) by doing business with a company that served porn. Think back to the 1970s when the fundies would photograph license plates of cars in dirty bookstore and XXX theater parking lots, run DMV checks on the numbers then send the pictures to the drivers' wives...which is one of the big reasons porn is now home video only. Anyway, any host that accepted .xxx would soon find itself only serving .xxx.

On the client end, any ISP that didn't filter .xxx at the head end would be accused of supporting children gaining access to porn.

Far from an easy way to filter porn, .xxx would mean the end of aboveboard porn. It would filter down to the parts of the internet the child porn and snuff films are on.