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AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Wed Feb 13 22:02:41 2002

I don't really care if the porn is there for adult people who mean and want to watch porn. But I take offense to some of the tactics that the industry uses to get in your face.

If you carelessly type in a URL at work with one minor misspelling, it is easy to find a pr0n site jumping out at you which could potentially get you fired. The pr0n industry intensionally reserves domain names similar to popular sites with one difference in spelling in order to force themselves on you. That is unethical IMO.

Look, we all like teh boobies here on OSY but I don't think any one of us (that are employed) want to lose our job because teh Boobies popped up by accident and the millitant feminist Dragonlady VP of HR was peering over your shoulder at just that moment.

And if I had kids, I sure wouldn't want them to be looking at teh boobies despite special software to keep that from happening.

I also don't want unsolicited pop-adds spamming up my screen at the rate of 10 a second, but that is another issue entirely. :)

So,

whaddya think?

Imitation Gruel

Wed Feb 13 22:31:30 2002

I see your point, AYB.

Famous example:

[url]http://www.whitehouse.com[/url] Porn
[url]http://www.whitehouse.gov[/url] Not porn

That is unethical IMO.

I agree. But it's probably legal, and if they can get away with it they will do so. More power to them.

Magus

Wed Feb 13 22:39:28 2002

I go to MC, and our site is [url=http://www.mc.edu]http://www.mc.edu[/url]. Recently, a pr0n site registered mississippicollege.com and this was discovered by one of the elderly ladies on the board of trustees. VERY not good. Fortunately, it was proven to the board that nobody on campus was responsible.

So, you can add me to the list of people pissed at pr0n sites.

AllYorBaseRBelong2Us

Wed Feb 13 22:54:55 2002

Recently, a pr0n site registered mississippicollege.com and this was discovered by one of the elderly ladies on the board of trustees.

This type of cybersquatting is what I'm talking about. This shouldn't be allowed to happen.

HitScan

Wed Feb 13 23:33:23 2002

That reminds me of what happened to the ShugaShack. www.shugashack.com was a great gaming site, and www.sugarshack.com was a porn site. It got bad enough that Steve changed it to www.shacknews.com and kept the sugashack as a forwarder. That sucks the bone right there. (It'd be different if he pulled down a little of the ad revenue off the porn site, but he didn't ;) )

DuffMan

Wed Feb 13 23:35:07 2002

True dat.

Luckily where I work, they don't even give us access to get outside the proxy server on to the internet. And we're the IT department!

HitScan

Thu Feb 14 00:02:14 2002

And we're the IT department!

Damnation man, do you not control the damn thing? :)
(well, I imagine you personally may not, but what the hell!)
That sucks. I would die without my open connection, accedental b00bies or no.

(Edited by HitScan at 7:19 pm on Feb. 13, 2002)

DeAthe

Thu Feb 14 03:08:59 2002

Fuck yea it's out of hand.

I am soo fucking sick of pron popups everywhere.

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