So What’s Better Than .XXX?:
I’m glad you asked.
I have given this a lot of thought.The internet is often called the information superhighway, how do you make a highway safe for kids? The answer is you don’t. It flat out isn’t isn’t possible. Making sure that everything on the information superhighway is suitable for kids defeats it’s purpose, highways, even information highways aren’t meant for kids.
So how can we keep our children safe on the internet? It can be a valuable learning tool for children. The answer is to make a safe place on the information super highway for children, not to make the whole thing safe for children.
So you ask how do you do that?
You give them their own domain, lets say we call it .KIDS.
Yes you say thats all fine and dandy but how would that help?
The answer is a browser that will only access .kids domains, and an overseeing body, non profit, that has the power to revoke any domain that doesn’t comply with the standards set forth by that body for a .kids domain.
Additionally parents can add specific .coms that kids can go to if they like. say disney.com or dictionary.com
This solves almost every problem with kids getting access to internet porn. First the browser is set up by the parent and cant be modified with plugins that would change the functionality unless the person has a parents password. Now your kids can’t go to google and get pornographic images, they cant use peer to peer networks for same they are gauranteed a safe place to learn and be intertained with appropriate content.
This can start a whole new cottage industry of internet sites that cater directly to children.
If you are a parent, or even if you aren’t stop and think about this for a second, doesn’t this make MUCH more sense than a .xxx domain that is essentially meaningless? With .xxx your child can still access google images and get hardcore images, they can still access limewire, bearshare and the like and get all the porn they want, they can still search google and land on a porn site, countries other than the US arent subject to US law so .coms in other countries are still adult oriented.
With .kids and the associated browser every single one of these problems are over come, and YOU are in control of what your child can access on the internet.
What more could you want?
