A new bill has been introduced by senators Max Baucus (D-MT) and Mark Pryor (D-AZ) that would require web sites offering adult content to operate under a special Top Level Domain. If passed, the Cyber Safety for Kids Act 2006, suggests all adult oriented web sites be coraled under a TDL such as .xxx.

Of course, the wise and benevolent senators claim that the purpose of the bill is "to facilitate the protection of minors using the Internet from material that is harmful to minors, and for other purposes." What other purposes, I wonder?

In Section 8 of the Bill, the senators define material harmful to minors as, "any communication, picture, image, graphic image file, article, recording, writing or other matter of any kind that is obscene." Besides obvious sexually explicit material they go on to define obscenity as anything that "lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value for minors."