Icann has rejected .XXX as a new top level domain. Possible titles for this post include:
.XXX Gets X’ed Out
No Sex Please, We’re ICANN
.XXX To Be Ex-TLD
No Happy Ending For .XXX
As I have mentioned previously, I think that .XXX was plausible as a harm-reduction approach It was misunderstood as both a fix for and an endorsement of pornography, when it was neither.
I predict that there will be regulated zones on the Internet some day, and that domain names could be part of that process. All other things being equal, the rejection of .XXX will deprive us of data as to how zones might function.

Video of Stephen Colbert saying that the emperor and the emperor’s press corps have no clothes was stored on YouTube. When reports that C-Span had asked YouTube to pull the clip on copyright grounds, there were, among others, two reactions: (1) how can a government claim copyrights; and (2) did they do so to suppress the speech.
To answer the first – it turns out that C-Span is not a government entity. It is a not-for-profit entity established by the cable industry and certainly own and assert copyright. As for conspiracy theories, C-Span itself is distributing the clip.

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