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Senator Seeks .Sex by Declan McCullagh
3:00 a.m. Jun. 9, 2000 PDT
Senator Joseph Lieberman wants to segregate Internet smut.
The Connecticut Democrat said Thursday that the U.S. government should consider alternative ways of shielding children from sexually explicit material, such as creating a new top-level domain such as ".sex" or ".xxx."
"This idea, which would in effect establish a virtual red-light district ... has a lot of merit, for rather than constricting the Net's open architecture it would capitalize on it to effectively shield children from pornography, and it would do so without encroaching on the rights of adults to have access to protected speech," Lieberman said at the third meeting of the federal Commission on Child Online Protection.
Lieberman stressed that he voted against the Communications Decency Act, which later was found to be unconstitutional, when it was a stand-alone bill, but neglected to mention that he voted for it when it was part of the larger Telecommunications Act of 1996.
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McCandlish also said the proposal "may not be constitutional" since it might force legitimate sites dealing with sexual issues to self-censor by segregating themselves in a less desirable neighborhood of the Net.
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