http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1069350The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has created and approved the .xxx suffix for pornographic websites -- and while it is being disguised as a way to segregate pornography to a separate domain, one pro-family leader believes it will actually increase pornographic pollution on the Internet.
An organization that was critical in the fight against this move is Enough Is Enough (EIE), a non-partisan, non-profit association that works to make the Internet safer for children and families.
"The pornographers historically have .com addresses, which they will continue to keep," explains EIE president Donna Rice Hughes. "This new top-level domain will just simply give them another place on the Internet to sell, to market, and to promote their pornography."
Donna Rice Hughes (Enough is Enough)Moreover, she argues, it will do nothing to protect children from pornography, but it will, in fact, make it easier for them to find. At the same time, it provides the potential for the porn industry to generate more income.
"We have to realize that the online pornography business, as [well as] the offline pornography business, is all about money," Hughes points out. "It's big bucks; it's a multi-billion dollar industry, and now it will be growing even faster."
She goes on to note that much of the pornography available online is illegal, yet with the exception of child porn, the federal government is not prosecuting it. If Congress tries to block the new domain, the EIE president does not believe members will be successful because of the courts.
She further feels that parents are the first line of defense, and they can learn how to deal with the issue at InternetSafety101.org.
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