Thanks to Alex Jones ( http://www.infowars.com )for tipping me off to this one.

http://www.politechbot.com/p-03415.html

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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 17:35:21 -0700
To: politech@politechbot.com
Subject: FC: Sen. Mary Landrieu wants to force ICANN to create ".p0rn"
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>

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An anonymous Politech member (thank you!) sent along the PDF version of
this bill. It is not yet on thomas.loc.gov, so here you go:
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/landrieu.s....s2137.bill.pdf

I have co-authored an IETF Internet Draft warning against this approach:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-01772.html

Here's the meat of the bill: "Any operator of a commercial Internet web site or online service that has as its principal or primary business the
making available of material that is harmful to minors shall register such web site or online service with the new domain and operate such web site or online service under the new domain."

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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:14:31 -0700
To: declan@well.com
From: [deleted]
Subject: Re: FC: U.S. senator plans to make secret videotaping a federal crime

In addition, the bill would set up an Internet domain (such as .prn) for material harmful to minors and requires all websites containing such material to register on that domain name. Any websites currently on other domains (such as .com, .org, etc.) would be required to close
down those sites and move to the new domain.
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I said when I skewered Florida's Republican solicitor general that I would be just as vicious if he were a Democrat, so I am pleased to point out that this time, the idiot in question is a Democrat.

[ April 18, 2002: Message edited by: twin58 ]