SPAM: -------------------- Start SpamAssassin results ---------------------- SPAM: This mail is probably spam. The original message has been altered SPAM: so you can recognise or block similar unwanted mail in future. SPAM: See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. SPAM: SPAM: Content analysis details: (5.3 hits, 5 required) SPAM: Hit! (2.7 points) Subject contains lots of white space SPAM: Hit! (0.6 points) BODY: Uses words and phrases which indicate porn (12) SPAM: Hit! (1.0 point) Received via an IP in dynablock.njabl.org SPAM: [RBL check: found 167.151.134.64.dynablock.njabl.org.] SPAM: Hit! (1.0 point) DNSBL: Received via an IP in dynablock.njabl.org SPAM: SPAM: -------------------- End of SpamAssassin results --------------------- ---- >From: Ron Gustavson <rongus@private> >To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private> >Subject: censorship via Paypal >Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 21:59:10 -0400 > >[for consideration on Politech] > >The Baroness ( www.baroness.com ) writes... >... > >You know I've always believed in the power of clothing, but it seems > someone at Paypal thinks a latex skirt or dress may have even more power > than I had dared to dream. Despite a complete lack of nudity and sex on > Baroness.com (it's all about the CLOTHES), Paypal has closed my account > -with no option of review- for alleged violation of their "Acceptable Use > Policy", which says their service may not be used to send or receive > payments for any "adult, sexually oriented, or obscene materials or services". > > > >While the censors at Paypal apparently have the legal right to summarily > dismiss their clients for any reason they choose, I hope you, my readers, > will consider what this means for the future of free commerce for anyone > with "alternative lifestyles". Next time you use Paypal, consider this: > What if the major banks and credit card companies decided to adopt the > same policy? Any commercial venture they deemed "unacceptable" would > disappear from the Internet. > > > >Government censorship is even worse, and in this arena my friend Barbara > Nitke has been fighting for all of us. In Nitke vs. US Attorney General > Ashcroft, she and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) are > challenging the obscenity statute of the so-called "Communications > Decency Act". Under this statute, anyone who has a website featuring SM, > bondage, fetish or any sexually extreme images is at risk, as are those > who visit it. For an overview of the case, read this: > http://www.wireniusreport.net/overview.html. Please visit > http://www.ncsfreedom.org/CDA/index.htm for more information, and > consider making a donation. > > >Ron Gustavson~~~~~~~~~~~~~~NO-∞-DO >7607 6FA2 6485 3707 42D1 99AD 7E20 52FD _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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