India to block .XXX top-level domain
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At the same time India by some statistics ( http://www.icrw.org/publications/international-men-and-gende... ) has the highests amounts of sexual abuse amongst it's peers like Brazil (which when compared to india is far more liberal and words like sex aren't dirty things that should be accompanied with rinsing your mouth to get rid of the impurity... ). It's just hard to believe that 25% of males surveyed have committed sexual violence compared to 2% in Brazil. This also jives with my observation that women aren't viewed as human beings over here by most people, but sex objects that are to be used for pleasure. It's just sick.
I wonder if there is more than just coincidence going on over here and if all of this feeds into one another...
The wikipedia articule seems to use revisionist language and lacks sufficient references so I would be interested if there any historians present with better information.
The Indians welcomed the muslims because although they were happy playing sittars and doing yoga they missed contact with the wider world and so welcomed the rich ethnic diversity of the mughul empire and then lived happily together in peace and love until the British deliberately caused religous strife in 1946 by forcing the muslims to move to Pakistan.
See also - how native american tribes lived in peace and harmony together and at one with nature until the British arrived.
Ah, so you're going to lie to them.
> Let us filter out these useless bandwidth leeches for you.
What are the odds that you'll do a better job (from their point of view) than they will?
More to the point, why should they believe that you're even trying to help their profits? When there's a choice between the nannies and their profits, which way will you go?
> in an area where sex is so taboo they will not possibly whip out their credit card for a porn site
Since such an area doesn't exist, we know the answer to the last question. (Seriously - I'll bet real money that there are folks in the Vatican paying for porn.)
There are folks in India who are paying for porn. Since India is one of the "bandwidth leeches" that you're protecting me from....
We all know that the sites selling adult content aren't likely to give up their existing .com domains. That sites containing user-submitted content that some would view as porn but which would themselves claim otherwise - RedBubble springs to mind - definitely aren't going to be interested in shifting to .xxx and that there will be a group campaigning for their own personal definition to be used in requiring people to move. And that sites containing, for example, material on sexual health or abortion are going to be pressured in some regions to shift to .xxx. The domain solves nothing well and creates so very many problems.
This whole issue was a very predictable problem from day one and I wish ICANN had had the courage to stand up for good sense and not grant the new TLD.
On another note, http://toroid.org/ams/etc/dot-india-crypto-nonsense ; on how competent the policymakers are.
And that's just a normal part of the way the world works.
Try sex, blowjob http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex%2Cblowjob&ctab=0&...
I am not saying that I have proved that the US/Canadians are waay more horny than people in other parts of the world. I am just pointing to why this kind of goog charts don't work while arguing.
The seizures you speak of weren't a failure of the DNS, either. They were the failure of registrars caving to pressure. The delegation of the domains did not change, GoDaddy (one instance I can think of) simply took control of the zone. Amusingly, everybody turned around and blamed ICANN as if they have anything to do with it, further proving that there are scant few people who understand how critical systems of the Internet work.
Looking at both http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_de... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_de..., India is not near the top. The top isn't characterized by being muslim, either. [EDIT: was "Neither are "muslim" states, though - with the exception of Afghanistan, the top "scorers" are all African."]
Islam, spread from North Africa beginning in the 10th century, has greatly shaped the mores of the people of Niger. Between 80 to more than 98% of the population is Muslim
So dimmuborgir was quite correct.
That said, yes, contrasting "muslim" and African is nonsense; I edited my post to fix that.
His statement is true in the same narrow sense as other nonsensical assertions like "No. Muslim countries have higher per capita incomes than the US" as a counterargument to suggestions the US might be doing rather well financially (without having as much oil per capita as Qatar and Bahrain). It's equally true to say "Christian countries have higher birth rate than India", but I'm guessing the original poster doesn't live in an environment where misleading negative stereotypes about Christians are commonplace.
Insinuating that Islam had anything to do with higher fertility rates is the sort of intellectually dishonest chauvinism and religious stereotyping that HN readers should be above. Couple that with a denial that a birthrate of >3 children per woman in an developing country of over a billion people might present a major challenge and you have a comment thoroughly deserving of downvotes.
According to my readings, two underappreciated reasons are:
1) unavailability of doctors/medical centers to do female sterilizations. Women literally riot in mobile sterilization camps if the camp closes before all of them are looked after. Men refuse to use condoms or get sterilized, but women do want to limit the number of children.
2) HUGE infant and child mortality among the poorer classes. If the probability of your child surviving to adulthood was low, you'd have three to five children too.
Neither of these are covered in your glib remark about porn. You should educate yourself more about your country.