Why a .xxx is a bad idea. I summarize: 1)they’ll be pressured to allocate certain IP addresses for adult sites, and that would be admininistratively maddening. 2)they’ll be pressured to create different categories of content (i.e., somewhatdirty.dirtysite.xxx vs. reallydirty.dirtysite.xxx) which is ultimately self-defeating, 3)it’s a trivial task to redirect people from a .com site to an xxx site. 4)controversial content will be steered into .xxxx sites, and this is bad.
The most interesting observation:
An adult top-level domain could have negative legal repercussions by endangering free expression. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has suggested that the presence of “adult zones” on the Internet would make a future Communications Decency Act (CDA) more likely to be viewed as constitutional. In her partial dissent to the Supreme Court’s rejection of the CDA in 1997 , O’Connor said
that “the prospects for the eventual zoning of the Internet appear promising”.