Today’s news budget, 4-14-2006
The Journal Star localized the debate over the proposed “.xxx” domain extension.
My two cents: It won’t work. There’s no way in Hell the pornographers would confine themselves to using that domain. They want people to stumble across their sites. They want to people to click on an innocent-looking link and find hard-core porn. And there is no way that segregating porn to it’s own domain would be ruled Constitutional. It requires an official definition of pornography. While there is stuff that 99.995 percent of the population will agree fits that definition, there’s a whole lot of stuff that can go either way in the court of public opinion, Remember that in the turn of the century, birth control information was considered obscene.
It turns out Bemis turned down offers from the city and county to “help.” Good thing to. Can you image if taxpayers had helped them build a new factory and they turned around the closed anyway? Then we’d not only have unemployment, but more debt on the backs of taxpayers.
The commuting public is dancing in the streets in East Peoria. Perhaps the Peoria Police Department will take notice. At the least, start some sort of public education program about the causes of gridlock.
Quick! Someone build a $100 million museum complex around this antique.
Question: Do they even bother immunizing children against the mumps? I’m pretty sure they gave me shots for it when I was a kid. And if they do, why in the hell are people getting sick from it all over again?
Instead of having just one anti-tax guy on the Washington City Council, now they don’t have any.
The City of Pekin, according to the headline, wants to control it’s own destiny. So, they want to do a whole slew of stuff, some of which tells private citizens that the City of Pekin will be controlling their destiny. No worries. Top down economic development — as opposed to the free market — has worked sooooooooo well in the Peoria side of the Illinois River.
Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates 
I think a different domain is an excellent start. Any site that containing nudity could be given the different domain. Yes, I know it would include art, etc. but so what, it would create a clear cut way of eliminating and filtering children from seeing items that parents don\’t want them to see. As for conforming to federal law, I would think if the penalty were large enough (ie large fines and potential jail) would be sufficient to force them to adhere.
[...] Bill Dennis from the Peoria Pundit writes: There’s no way in Hell the pornographers would confine themselves to using that domain. They want people to stumble across their sites. They want to people to click on an innocent-looking link and find hard-core porn. [...]