John and all, Good point John! John Levine wrote:
You don't need to think very long to know that words exists that are so ridden with hate that they do not deserve to be hard-wired into the fabric of the Internet.
Perhaps, but I also know that they're already there. (Try any sexual, racial, or religious slur in .com, and you'll find it's there.) I also know that there are strings that spell a benign word in one language, and an indecent word in another, and that public morality means very different things in different countries.
Let's watch and see how this process works before we condemn it.
We know that ICANN's track record with beauty contests has been dismal. Does anyone really expect that they'll do any better with ugly contests?
R's, John
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