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Trixie, I do feel your plight and understand the issues that effect such site owners. I am not going to single out which group is in more danger or whatnot. I already stated that our offices have gotten actual real letters real idiots took actual time to write out and send via the postal service to the address listed for the custodian of records. Which is well beyond some schmuck slamming out some stupid email and pressing send while hiding in cyberspace. So yes I do know and understand what the dangers are and could be, for you, for anyone regardless of gender, preference, or race. There are more than enough crazy idiots to go around.
When I first got started in all of this as some silly ass nobody in some nondescript small town one of the very first things I did was find any and every law, case history, and relevant issue that could effect me. I learned as much as I could, spent some money having people explain it to me yet again in case I interpreted it wrong and so forth. My small lawyer who I had spoken to advised me against it and clearly explained to me that this is one of the very few areas he has seen where you do not know if you broke the law until a jury says so.
I used to talk 2257 and other stuff on assorted boards a bit more than a half decade ago until I was blue in the face. I would warn people, attempt to rally support and unification, and even post assorted actions I saw coming down the pipe. Nearly always I was laughed at and got the constant mocking of "the sky is falling chicken little" bullshit. People just acted to gung ho, to greedy, and felt they were untouchable behind some constitutional shield.
Our only hope then as well as now was unification on a single front without petty politics and insider deals getting in the way. A solid group of site owners big and small representing everyone from producers to advertisers. This has and I really feel will never come to fruition in any acceptable form. We have no solid base to fight from and to many are to concerned with their own fiefdoms, the pockets in front of them, and the hands in their own rear pockets.
The only way I see it is that we have allowed them to plant the seeds, we have ignored them and even gone so far as to keep them well fertilized and watered. We can not act all shocked and dismayed now that it has taken root and its branches are reaching all of us now, can we?
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