Hey Dan

In another bizarre twist of reality the Bush administration has raised last-minute objections to a new .xxx internet domain for pornographic websites. How can the Bush administration be against an easy way to filter out adult content? Answer is simple, the Family Research Council.

Family Research Council has dedicated itself to working against reproductive freedom, sex education, equal rights for gays and lesbians and their families, funding of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. They support a school prayer amendment and would like to ‘disestablish’ the Department of Education.

So, you can imagine where they stand on porn. Here is the statement the made about the new domain:

"Pornographers will be given even more opportunities to flood our homes, libraries and society with pornography through the .xxx domain. The .xxx domain will increase, not decrease, porn on the internet," it said.

What? So what you are saying is that labeling R rated movie is making it easier for kids to sneak into them? This logic does not stand up. That is because they are lying. Pornographers will have then same or less chance to flood our homes with nudity. Which one of these domain names looks more like an adult content site My-Site dot COM or My-Site dot XXX? Let us not even talk about Whitehouse dot com... Wouldn’t it be nice if it went to something that had to do with the place the President lives?

Here is my guess why Family Research Council objects, it will make adult content easier to find. They do not want to protect you from Pornographers shoveling smut under your door. They want to ban it. I do not like Larry Flint, but I can see his point. Think about it... what on the list of things they want to ban would you miss? Freedom, equality, arts, education for all, Big Bird?