FC: American Medical Association wants masturbation GIF yanked

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

As a joke about sex, it's only mildly amusing, the kind you might pass 
around to friends or close co-workers. But to the august American Medical 
Asssociation, there's nothing funny at all about an animated GIF with an 
AMA logo that warns of the dangers of masturbation.

I phoned AMA attorney Susan Weiss to ask her if she would actually file 
suit if the web owner, Robert Hayden, refused to remove it. She said she'd 
have to check into it.

Robert Hayden, BTW, is the inventor of the geekcode. (I don't remember what 
mine was, but you can check it out at geekcode.com.)

More info:
  http://www.geek.net/ama

-Declan



> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 11:01:25 -0600 (CST)
> From: "Robert A. Hayden" <rhayden () geek net>
> To: Declan McCullagh <declan () wired com>
>
>
> Declan,
>
> http://www.geek.net/ama has a full write up now that I have received the
> certified letter.
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=
> Robert Hayden                   rhayden () geek net       UIN: 16570192


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