ShadeDiva
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There isn't.
If you own the business and you live in the US it will affect you. Changing servers won't help you in the least.
This is far-reaching and it's not just a matter of getting Bush out of office. Once he is gone, if he and the Republicans pushing for it don't manage to get the 22nd ammendment repealed, which BTW has been started in two different bills set forth in February 2005, we will STILL have to deal with the imbalance in the House of Representives, and the judges that are being put in place to ensure this type of stuff survives the presidency, and the like.
They will far outlast the current president and we have more to fear from them than him, that is unless they are successful in repealing the 22nd ammendment or Bush declares martial law.
Art is already under attack. It's been under attack since Ashcroft declared the war on porn. We just were hoping now that he's gone his little mission would be gone with him. Obviously it isn't. He freaking draped the Lady Justice statue because her bare breasts were indecent for crying out loud. He opposed and was backed in stating that art, like the statue of David, was obscene.
The human naked body - made in the image of the Lord as the Christian faith goes is somehow obscene. But murder is okay. You can see folks chopped up in gruesome detail (not that I'm complaining, as I'm a gore fan lol) and that makes it to regular tv but two people enjoying each other where no one gets hurt is obscene. At least Do Not Kill is a commandent. I can't remember any commandent that said, nakedness is a sin, or having sex is a sin. Unless those were on the ones Moses broke lol.
In regard to it being a good law to stop child pornography, I ask you this:
HOW?
They are ALREADY breaking laws. They ALREADY don;t care. They ALREADY thumb their noses and do it anyway, creating laws isn't going to STOP them, the existing laws don't stop them so what good will more laws do?
The people THIS law targets don't DO child pornography and find it just as appalling as everyone else. We aren't creating it, condoning it, supporting it, or helping it. In reagrd to children seeing the porn well make a freaking law that says PARENTS can be arrested for NOT using the kiddie filters that most adult webmasters are responsible enough to register the kiddie filters to not let children see their site?
They are using the stop child pornography as a smoke screen because people have knee jerk reactions to it. It's easy to cast opposing voices as those that don't "care about our children" or as of of those evil child pornographer supporters to further ostrasize and divide any naysayers. This is NOT about protecting our children. This is about them saying we don't like what you are creating and we don't want anyone else to see it so you are going to jail.
Which isn't very democratic, patriotic, or about freedom. That's a dictatorship run by a corporation called the American government - IF it continues unabated.
Voicing our displeasure and discussing it and sharing information may one day be taken from us as well. What happens when they decide community websites like mine and sites like this one are obscene and lead to deviancy and the corruption of society and minors? It's a very real possiblity. And it's scary. They go THAT route, that kills off yahoo, chat rooms, IMs, and sites where we can gather and support each other. Divide and conquer. What happens if emailing someone about BDSM is a crime? They already read our emails and our chats and our forums undr the Patriot Act. They can film us in our homes, seize and imprision us as long as they want without a shred of evidence and withhold you from getting legal counsel as long as they like due to the Patriot Act.
It's scary. And it's not very freedom orientated. And yes, I AM aware that by saying this I'm making myself a target. But it is true.
And if that doesn't bother you, and make you add everything thats going on in our legislation together and be nervous about what they are going to do next, you should be. Right now they could plant whatever evidence they wanted - create any damning evidence and then lock you up, throw away the key, and use you as an example to scare other people. Who will save you from the government if they want you to go down? So yeah, we that have sites are running a little scared. And lots of us are nervous. They aren't going after the child pornographers - they are going after US, and since we aren't breaking laws, they are CREATING laws to MAKE us law breakers.
I hope they don't succeed but the mere fact that they are just *trying* scares me silly. If there was currently a balance of power I wouldn't be so worried, but there's a severe imbalance, and it's showing.
Okay I'm depressed again. Wah. *sigh*
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