.xxx Open For Business Soon

Armageddon is upon us.

The day of the .xxx TLD is upon us.

I never got the whole foaming-at-the-mouth-its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it argument about what should be a storm in a teacup.

I also never got the fact that the conservative religious right teamed up with those “evil perverted purveyors of smut and pornography that eats away at the very fabric of our society and corrupts young impressionable minds” to stop ICANN from agreeing to the creation of this TLD.

I would have thought that the religious right would have been all for setting up a cyberspace Patpong.

That way they could rail and rage against the “evil perverted…you know the rest” while those same “evil perverted…blah, blah, blah” could practice their purveying of smut and pornography, consumption of societal fabric and corrupting of young minds in the same said cyberspace Patpong.

You know that something just ain’t right when you can get someone like Larry Flynt and anyone on the Religious Right to agree on ANYTHING relating to pornography.

Now I know that the world is going to spin off its axis!

The Team Televangelist argument is that those young impressionable minds will be able to find, with a four character Google search, smut and pornography that will turn them into sex fuelled deviants while Team Flynt worries that with a simple internet filter their entire industry will disappear into a cloud of rapidly disappearing electrons.

Lets face it. This is about money. Pure and simple.

Team Flynt worries about impacts on their silicon and gymnastics powered revenue streams while Team Televangelist will find it harder to extract ‘donations’ via their 1-800 hotline to salvation for their crusade against those evil purveyors because blocking access to young, impressionable minds will become much easier.