
LOS ANGELES —On May 17, 2004, Joan Irvine, the executive director of the Adult Sites Against Child Pornography organization posted the following comment to the ICANN website during a public comment period on the application by ICM Registry to run a sponsored top-level domain.
I repost it along with subsequent communications between members of the ASACP AC in order to add some information to the historical account of this period and the actions taken (or not taken) by people and organizations who
—whether they want to admit it or not
—were instrumental in the eventual passage of .XXX. I think ASACP was and is a valuable organization, but after reading this it may come as no surprise that it was not that long after these events transpired that I left the ASACP AC.
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CYBERSPACE —The good news about the passage of .XXX is that opponents will hopefully no longer have to attend ICANN meetings. Though they take place at f...
LOS ANGELES —Here is Philip and Baby Hand, I think. Philip is smiling—obviously—but he also looks as if he is giving Baby Hand the chance to say someth...
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CHARLOTTE, NC – Apparently having exhausted the supply of naked people and scandalous discourse in the now-infamous Eric Dane/Rebecca Gayheart sex tape, Gawker.com has turned it...
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