[IP] more on Feds' porn-regs threaten independent sites; Rotten.com's problems [fs]
Begin forwarded message:
From: Frode Hegland <frode@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 30, 2005 9:55:55 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] Feds' porn-regs threaten independent sites;
Rotten.com's problems [fs]
Have you seen http://www.rotten.com? It is quite simply incredible -
a collection of corpses. Yes, dead people. Not porn. It's absolutely
disgusting and I just can't see how this can be entertainment or
innocent or anything other than wrong.
Should it be censored? Sure it should, just the way I censored this
site: I didn't come back. But there is not discussion of this (in
case anyone read that wrong: I am saying it should not be censored).
http://www.gapingmaw.com has pictures of naked people enjoying each
others company. Not much of a threat to civilization. But hugely
debated.
Hmm.. What would I have been more disturbed by when I was a child? A
naked woman or a guy with his head blown off?
The priorities of the laws of the US government...
[gapingmaw home page..
Oops they did it again
CENSORED BY US GOVERNMENT
18 USC 2257
Yes, that is correct. The wonderful things that used to be here, the
very funny things that you want to read, have been made retroactively
illegal by the US government, in a side-handed attack on the
pornography industry.
We might mention that the material here isn't even pornography as you
normally think of it -- this site is just adult humor, in essay
format, with some illustrations. The government is mandating that we
meet certain bookkeeping requirements, ones impossible to meet for
this site. Never mind that those requirements do not actually gain
the public anything. This is the strongest attack on free speech
since the passage of the CDA, and oddly, the media seems to have
hardly noticed. The penalty for not abiding by these bookkeeping
requirements is five years prison.
The regulations were promulgated by Alberto Gonzales, US Attorney
General appointed by George Bush. If you voted for Bush, this is your
fault. If you think this country is free, you are sadly mistaken. No
nation has freedom when it is run by religious zealots.
Regulations effective 24 June 2005.
djf]
On 30 Jun 2005, at 10:00, David Farber wrote:
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@xxxxxxxx>
Date: June 27, 2005 9:22:32 AM EDT
To: politech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Politech] Feds' porn-regs threaten independent sites;
Rotten.com's problems [fs]
A message on gapingmaw.com (which you could call an industrial-
strength
grossout blog of sorts) says:
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CENSORED BY US GOVERNMENT 18 USC 2257
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