I don’t really have an opinion on the idea of making porn sites use the .xxx address. However, I find this little exchange interesting for the light it sheds on how email and communication in general is managed by our opponents:

ICM says the e-mails show how the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, a branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce, were subjected to intense pressure to intervene in some way on behalf of the The Family Research Council, and Focus On The Family, two religious conservative lobbyists.

NTIA members then started keeping watch as to how the .xxx proposal was reported in the media, had drafted letters protesting the .xxx domain addressed to ICANN, helped facilitate meetings between ICANN and concerned groups, and otherwise “marshaled our resources at ICANN,” as one NTIA official put it in an e-mail.

As the e-mail blitz was going on, Bush’s main political operative, Karl Rove, met with James Dobson, the leader of Focus On The Family, to air his opposition to the .xxx proposal, ICM learned through other sources.

A secret “Stop .XXX” order went in effect shortly after the meeting, according to the documents.

This was all taking place in spite of a ban on such activities called upon by a memorandum of understanding allowing the Department of Commerce to work on a particular project with ICANN involving domain name servers.

You can read the emails various players involved sent to each other, as well as the eweek story. Color me confused as to why this is an issue that Dobson and his ilk need to harp on. Where is the money/benefit, and to whom?