more on Feds' porn-regs threaten independent sites; Rotten.com's problems [fs]

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Frode Hegland <frode () hegland com>
Date: June 30, 2005 9:55:55 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
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 () well com>
> Date: June 27, 2005 9:22:32 AM EDT
> To: politech () politechbot com
> 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:
>
> ---
>     CENSORED BY US GOVERNMENT 18 USC 2257

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