Plans Rally Against .XXX at ICANN Meeting — Adult Industry

Group calls for rally outside ICANN meeting.

Adult industry lobbying group Free Speech Coalition is calling for a rally outside the ICANN meeting at the Westin in San Francisco next week.

Citing “a time when rallies are changing the world around us”, evoking images I suppose of unions in Wisconsin and (say it ain’t so) uprisings in Northern Africa, Free Speech Coalition is calling for “all industry professionals to rally in San Francisco against .XXX!!”

The group states a shortened public comment period ahead of next week’s board vote is specifically designed to limit Free Speech Coalition’s ability to speak out against the approval of .xxx. So it wants to rally outside the Union Square Westin from 12:30-2 pm. It also suggests that .xxx registry ICM Registry has “bought” ICANN favor and its Chairman of the Board. (That’s probably not a good thing to suggest if you want to get the Chair on your side.)

If .xxx gets the green light anyway, Free Speech Coalition is calling for a boycott of .xxx. That would be difficult; surely competitors would snap up each others domain names.

In case there’s any doubt what the group thinks regarding .xxx, it concludes its release with:

“we think .XXX is…BULLSHIT!”