I'd be willing to place a small wager that the 'overwhelming' amount of protest letters/emails received all are from the same boilerplate chain letter, originating from just a few sources. In fact, seems like only 6,000 letters is now classified as 'overwhelming' response. I could get 6,000 letters calling for withdrawal from Iraq in a day or two, does that mean the government will listen to me? Doubt it.
Feds Urge Delay for '.xxx' Domain
After receiving a pile of last-minute protests, officials push for postponing creation of a porn-only internet province.
... The department received nearly 6,000 letters and e-mails expressing concerns about the impact of pornography on families and children and objecting to setting aside a domain suffix for it, he said.
Update, per boingboing, I was correct. The Family Retro Council of Elders-who-wish-we-lived-in the-14th-century or whatever the heck they're called is the ones who orchestrated the complaints. Only 6,000 mindless drones bothered to fill in their own names on the letters.The FRC members must be deflated after all the man-on-man sex they had to watch as part of the FRC powerpoint proposal.
Text of FRC boycott jihad:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 17, 2005
CONTACT: Amber Hildebrand, (202) 393-2100Washington, D.C. -- Family Research Council has launched an effort to
mobilize its supporters against the proposal to establish a .XXX
domain for porn Webs sites. Tony Perkins, President of Family Research
Council released the following statement on www.frc.org earlier today:“Pornographers will be given even more opportunities to flood our
homes, libraries and society with pornography through the .XXX
domain. The Internet Corporation for Assigning Names and Numbers
(ICANN), the Internet's nonprofit body with authority for development,
has indicated that it will establish an .XXX domain for porn Web
sites. To some this may initially seem like a good idea but it is one
that has been considered and rejected as ineffectual for years. This
will NOT require pornographers who are on the .com domain to relocate
to the .XXX domain.
...
”Attorney General Gonzales is launching a major effort to prosecute
the porn industry. He intends to smash these criminal enterprises on
the Internet and elsewhere with a new obscenity strike force. This is
the only way to handle hardcore pornographers...
Perkins ends his message with a call to action for Family Research
Council supporters to get in touch with the Commerce Department and
ICANN to voice their opposition to the .XXX domain.
rest here
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