[governance] ICANN Board Vote Signals Era of Censorship in Domain Names

[Bret Fausett]

I think it's important to distinguish between "censorship" (which I  
think most would define as the total blocking of access to content)  
and "zoning" (which is placing restrictions on the place at which one  
may place content). Government regulations, in the U.S. or elsewhere,  
that used the .XXX TLD would "zone" pornographic speech, not censor  
it. If you can access content at a .XXX TLD, it's not "censored,"  
it's just zoned.

> Actually, if .xxx had been approved, then many governments could  
> have passed laws to force porn sites into it, thus actually making  
> censorship easier. The only reply I got to this observation was  
> "yes, but in the US we have the First Amendment that would make it  
> impossible". And what about the rest of the world?

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