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Sen. Baucus pushes for .xxx Internet domain

It’s rare that Christian conservatives and the pornography industry agree on anything. But a congressional proposal to create a new Internet domain has made odd bedfellows of the two groups.

Some moderate Democrats in Congress are pushing for an Internet red-light district where pornography would be isolated on an ‘‘.xxx’’ domain. Conservatives and the adult entertainment industry are fighting the idea — but for dramatically different reasons.

Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., is crafting the legislative package that would require the Department of Commerce to create the new domain name. Pornographic Web sites would be required to abandon their ‘‘.com’’ addresses, ideally consolidating them all in one Internet neighborhood.

The idea, supporters say, is to clean up the Web as former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani cleaned up Times Square.

It’s similar to the actions a lot of communities take in zoning adult stores, Baucus said.

By MARY CLARE JALONICK – Associated Press Writer

Full Story: http://helenair.com/articles/2006/02/06/montana_top/a01020606_02.txt

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