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More Internet Censorship in Ireland

01-04-2009 7:10am

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Cabaal

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"An Irish adult website has blogged about the Irish domain registry banning adult domain names [CC] [MD] [GC], including porn.ie and pornography.ie. The IEDR's reasoning is that the words 'porn' and 'pornography' are offensive and immoral. Of interest is how Sex.ie took legal action against the IEDR — and proved that neither word is offensive — yet still lost the case, as the IEDR are the highest authority in Ireland when it comes to deciding what is and isn't an offensive domain."

http://www.sex.ie/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=158&group_guid=155

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#2 01-04-2009 11:59am

smellslikeshoes

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This has been the case for many years, just seems silly to me since its so easy (and cheaper) to just register an adult site with a .com or .net etc.
To be honest it seems less like censorship and more like an organisation not wanting to have to deal with porn sites.

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