Non-English Speaking Webmasters

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Originally Posted by Jim

Hell, look toward your own government as far as trying to stop porn. Wasn't there a Lord that was called Lord Porn because of the way he tried to stomp out porn in the UK? And wasn't he laughed at by his counterparts and dismised as a joke?

He was laughed at, but he got a lot of companies closed down, a lot of stuff banned, and a lot of people sent to jail.

Until a few years ago we had very strict laws over here. Up to about ten years ago it was still a serious offence to even put a link to a porn site, let alone run one. Even if you ran a non-profit making blog like site where you just talked about your boring life, pets, favourite bar, etc. and one day mentioned a porn site you had seen (and been disgusted by) on the net, you could go to jail if you put a link to it on your site.

And it is only about two years ago that it ceased to be an inprisonable offence to display a photo of an erect penis.

That is why I am so certain America is heading for 'porn prohibition', because the way the American press and politicians are talking is the way our press and politicians were talking in the early 1980s, before we got our seriously draconian anti porn laws.

When I started in online porn I spent a lot of money setting up a fake Japanese identity for myself, so the 'Japanese me' could take the blame. If you don't do something now, you will soon have to do a similar thing. If you sit there saying "We got freedom of speech/it won't happen here" then it will happen. As someone once said "democracy is not a privilege, it is a duty", you want to still be in this business for the foreseeable future, you have got to start fighting to keep that right to free speech now.

But I am getting way off my original point, which was not what Americans should do (its your country, none of my business how you run it, I don't live there). Originally I was saying why I thought it was a mistake for European webmasters to invest more time and effort in American based sites than in sites aimed at their countrymen (my answer to a question posted by Jim), and asking why they did it (sort of repeating the thread's aim).