Net porn plan labelled 'obscene'

BBC NEWS | Technology | Net porn plan labelled 'obscene'

This is an interesting one, there is an argument that says yes put all porn on .xxx. It would make porn sites easier to be blocked by those who want to block them and could stop stupidities like the firewall at my work being set up so that no sites in a foreign language can be seen which is daft! The reason I was given when I queried this was that the site could contain naughty words in that language and they didn't have the computing power to translate foreign language sites that were accessed before allowing or blocking so they just blocked.

The counter argument runs though that one person's porn is another person's valid and healthy interest. As it says in the article "the religious right in the US might be motivated to make any site with any "adult" content move to the .xxx domain." There are a lot of sites out there that could be considered as adult sites because, although they contain no porn whatsoever, their subject matter could upset those of a "nervous disposition" or those with Mary Whitehouse tendencies. For instance websites that deal with transgendered issues.

I'm not actually that fussed about it, I think it is a relatively good idea but there are risks attached as the article says but I don't think it is an obscene idea, that's just hyperbole.