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Losses and the Communications Decency Act - 1/16/2006 7:29:38 AM

LadiesBladewing

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Good morning, my friends,

I write to mourn the passing of some of the icons of our community due to the Communications Decency Act.

Midori, who has thrilled so many of us with her understanding of the beauty of bondage, is no more a part of our online community. After -years- of providing insight and artful bondage, information and mentorship, Midori's sites are gone.

Likewise, Lady Wyllo, who provided Leather and Light for those of us who came to this place to learn, and to challenge the spiritual presence found through this lifestyle, is taking her site offline, because the risks of remaining available to the community are far to high now, when it may cost her jail time, fines, loss of everything up to an including her means of life.

This is -wrong-, my friends... this fight is not for one of us, it is for -all- of us, no matter whether we are public or private about our lifestyle, because where silence is forced on one, it soon becomes the compass for silence being forced on all.

First They Came for the Jews

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

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RE: Losses and the Communications Decency Act - 1/16/2006 9:18:37 AM

yourMissTress

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Lady Zephyr,

Thank you for reminding me yet again of why I am an active American. It's so easy to sit back and enjoy a private and discrete lifestyle when others are ensuring it. Taking advantage of the blood, sweat and tears of others is certainly the easy way to live. It's not easy to stand up and be counted when yours is not the popular opinion. This doesn't have to be heroics, it doesn't have to mean outing yourself to the world, voting is private, contributions can be anonymous, and supporting acceptance and tolerance for all lifestyles and people can begin within your own heart and mind.

We must stand up for what's right simply because it's right and not wait for that to apply directly to ourselves, as the poem that you posted so eloquently states.

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RE: Losses and the Communications Decency Act - 1/16/2006 9:22:04 AM

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I have a dream..............

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RE: Losses and the Communications Decency Act - 1/16/2006 5:34:20 PM

TheHungryTiger

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Just a few things .....

First, I am almost positive that you ment "Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act" and not "Communications Decency Act". The Communications Decency Act was struck down as being unconstitutional in ACLU v. Reno on June 26,1997

Next, I am not personally familiar with Lady Wyllo but a quick google search pointed me to http://www.chainleather.com/ If this is indeed the website at issue, it states quite clearly on the front page that the closer has nothing at all to do with any government regulation against obscenity. Power outages and phone problems related to Hurricane Katrina are the cause for the closure.

Last, though it is technically true that Midori's Beauty Bound was closed because of changes in government regulation, it was because the paperwork required to keep it open was too great for a one-man-operation to do. Now objectively speaking, porn has it rather sweet when it comes to government required paperwork. Ya don't need a license to sell it, there is no 3 day waiting period, if transporting porn you don't need special certification to drive the truck it is in. My day job I work at a bank, and the government paperwork required there is 100 times more complex than the paperwork than the paperwork I need to keep to run my small kinky-based business on the side.

But as the saying goes, "if it bleeds it leads". I know that the panicked, reactionary, we-are-all-doomed-run-for-the-hills, kind of paranoia is in full swing these days. Me pointing out any of these issues is not going to make any dent at all to the doomsday prophecies people are sprouting.

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