AlienQ.. kudos for stepping up and applying your skills and time to a good cause.
What's at stake to surfers and to webmasters is not the privacy issue that you have on your banner, it's basically about the right for webmasters to show pornographic material and for web surfers to consume that good.
DOJ has made public statements focusing on a "war on obscenity". 2257 is a tool that they can, and probably will, use as a way to knockdown "obscenity".
So to the web surfers, 2257 is just 4 numbers put together, what it should mean to them is the assault on the abilty of an adult to look at porn.
To the webmaster, 2257 should mean 2256 to them (section which defines what "sexually explicit" means) + 1.
I doubt that surfers looking for free porn or at a paysite would jump at the chance to donate money to FSC. What might be more effective, is if paysites contributed some money per signup, and flew some kind of "fight for your right to view porn" banner, that would let them help make a stand with their dollars by joining paysites who contribute to the cause.
Free sites, tgp, etc who generate advertising revenue could jump into the game to offer some contributions to FSC, so that their surfers who frequent ther sites, know that by visiting, they are helping.
AlienQ.. kudos for stepping up and applying your skills and time to a good cause.
What's at stake to surfers and to webmasters is not the privacy issue that you have on your banner, it's basically about the right for webmasters to show pornographic material and for web surfers to consume that good.
DOJ has made public statements focusing on a "war on obscenity". 2257 is a tool that they can, and probably will, use as a way to knockdown "obscenity".
So to the web surfers, 2257 is just 4 numbers put together, what it should mean to them is the assault on the abilty of an adult to look at porn.
To the webmaster, 2257 should mean 2256 to them (section which defines what "sexually explicit" means) + 1.
I doubt that surfers looking for free porn or at a paysite would jump at the chance to donate money to FSC. What might be more effective, is if paysites contributed some money per signup, and flew some kind of "fight for your right to view porn" banner, that would let them help make a stand with their dollars by joining paysites who contribute to the cause.
Free sites, tgp, etc who generate advertising revenue could jump into the game to offer some contributions to FSC, so that their surfers who frequent ther sites, know that by visiting, they are helping.
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I doubt that surfers looking for free porn or at a paysite would jump at the chance to donate money to FSC. What might be more effective, is if paysites contributed some money per signup, and flew some kind of "fight for your right to view porn" banner, that would let them help make a stand with their dollars by joining paysites who contribute to the cause.
Free sites, tgp, etc who generate advertising revenue could jump into the game to offer some contributions to FSC, so that their surfers who frequent ther sites, know that by visiting, they are helping.
Fight the Burning of Porn!
WELL SAID, B!
I wish I had more time in my day to better organize this!!!
I wish I had more time in my day to better organize this!!!
Taking your time to give proceeds from your sales towards FSC is time well spent from your busy schedule.
I am chatting with some folks at FSC. You have set a great example of how the internet-based adult businesses can help out FSC and join FSC, who has traditionally been seen as more video company oriented.
Michelle, the executive director, is trying to not have FSC be like an Oldsmobile. They are adapting and evolving and they do have the political and legal connections to make positive and effective changes.
Taking your time to give proceeds from your sales towards FSC is time well spent from your busy schedule.
I am chatting with some folks at FSC. You have set a great example of how the internet-based adult businesses can help out FSC and join FSC, who has traditionally been seen as more video company oriented.
Michelle, the executive director, is trying to not have FSC be like an Oldsmobile. They are adapting and evolving and they do have the political and legal connections to make positive and effective changes.
Fight the Apathy!
Hit me up on ICQ, please. I want you to give her my phone number so I can figure out how I CAN contribute more ... even if only by further getting the word out!!!
Sorry to say the FSC is fighting a cause they simply can't win while the Republicans/ Nazi's are in office-
I wish them all the very best and am happy to say that I was the VERY first webmaster to talk to the FSC back with Jeffery Douglas and Bill Lyons back in the day-
Douglas is a great atty-
LYONS was A MORON.
Hopefully they will push hard and things will change- I am very cynical though.
Sorry to say the FSC is fighting a cause they simply can't win while the Republicans/ Nazi's are in office-
It's the Supreme Court, not the Republicans in power that will decide the issue of 2257.
Granted, Republican presidents have placed their picks to the high court, but I do have some faith in our system, that the constitition will be upheld as FSC challenges the parts of 2257 that are over-reaching and un-Constititional.
2257 statute is not a bad thing. It's there with the right intentions to prevent children from being used in adult content. Adherence to 2257 is a requirement, that no FSC challenge can change or would seek to change.
What needs to be changed is various sections of 2257 that could harm solo-site models, etc, etc. (FSC has an excellent write-up on their challenges).
Use of 2257 as a way to enforce moral "obscenity" issues is the real issue.
(FSC has an excellent write-up on their challenges).
here's the link to their position on the proposed changes at the time. It's a pretty safe guess that what we saw with Ashcroft's version will appear (and maybe some new ones).
I dontated yesterday and I am encouraging all the webmasters on a smaller board I run also to donate. (Sherm can vouch for that!) Every little bit helps! No matter what size webmaster you are then you should donate or do whatever you can to help and get the word out.
Sunny and I are members of the FSC and we spent 2 days with them here in Sacramento for Lobbying Days in April, along with Brittany Andrews, Nena Hartley and others, where we met with diffferent staff members, congressman etc. to lobby for the adult industry. The FSC is a great group of people and they support a great cause. Please donate and help them out as much as you can.
do you people think that people who create CP really care about 2257? I mean really... I really think there is another adjenda for the 2257 laws than to protect children. IMO.
very nice of all these high profile and very knowledgable attorneys to donate thier time for this and for the Free Speach Coalition to take on the issue.
I wonder how much money the FSC has gotten in the last couple days since the reg were passed.. I am sure its not even CLOSE to enough!! Bump to help out even more.
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