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Kids Only Internet?
from the sponsored-by-Disney? dept
A Congressional panel is taking a look at whether or not a kid safe portion of the internet should be created at .kids.us. The idea is that kid safe sites could be put up at someaddress.kids.us which would prevent the need for "filters" to block out access to non-kid safe sites for kids whose parents felt they needed to block out most of the world. It's an interesting idea, and it certainly beats requiring filters, but I'm not sure how many people would actually use such a thing. There is a chicken and egg problem in getting enough content providers to switch to the new domain if there's no evidence that people are using it.
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That sounds great!
Now I know my child can read the web, safe from drug dealers, pornographers, Disney, religion and advertising for sugary cereal!
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.XXX better idea
The porn people have been asking for a .XXX TLD for ages. You'd get more porn migrating to a content specific domain than "kid safe" content, whatever that is (CNN? Yahoo? Only Nick.com?)
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Re: .XXX porno
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What do you mean chicken and egg? All a site would have to do is register a *.kid address to pint to there already existing *.com. Whats the big deal in that?
p.s the big deal is who gets to decide whose site
is Okay for little Jose and Jane
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