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Originally posted by PK
Try being sued more than once because some teenager decided to go to school with a gun and murder several people and some attorney decides to get his name in the news by using the fact that the kid(s) viewed internet porn and you happen to have a site found in the cache on the computer he(they) had access to....
Have the FBI show up at your door because your name is on a list of candidates for home invasions and murder because they feel you link inappropriate material and then have the FBI look in detail at exactly what you link to and how questionable any of it might be.....
then see what you will and will not list.
Also.. unwritten in the rules, but while I'm on my soapbox.. ..
I don't like the word C*nt.... use it in a submission (not saying anyone here has) and I won't list the site... my perogative...
I also don't like anything that plays at the idea of female (or male for that matter) rape or torture, etc. I don't like it.. I won't list it... my perogative...
So someone visits my site and they're looking for things I don't list... they'll go elsewhere and find it. It's likely that person won't click on banners for sites I'm promoting, let alone purchase a membership to something.
on and GG...hehe..who says I don't post here?
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Hi kitty,
been there, done that, still here, the same. The short version.
I am no stranger to controversy, I had one of the most controversial topsites in the world for about 4 years, Lucifer's Toplist, where nothing was censored accept REAL illegal stuff, not perceived illegal stuff. We had skin heads, neo-nazi's, punks, goths, you name it they came. Marlyn Manson signed our guest book 2 years in a row, was mentioned on the Howard Stern Show, investigated several times, got numourous threats, the whole nine yards kitty. But as offensive as that topsite was, and it was more then a topsite, visitors could post their own pics, message board, etc., it broke no laws. I had several volunteer to maintain the site because we constantly had to remove sites that were illegal, basically as long as it was legal we didn't care, but we had a sh*t load of stuff we had to remove regularly. The only things that got removed was animal sh*t and REAL CP.
Around the time of the Colombine Shooting my assistant put the shooters pictures on our splash page, as we do feature regular guests on our splash page. Man we got a lot of heat over that. My host who had the most balls I seen any one have was getting nervous too. Every one got phone calls, and emails, and I asked my assistant why she put the shooters pics up "in loving memory", she said that what they did was wrong, but they were victims too. Cool, the pics stayed and the only thing that happened was a lot of people got pissed. They got over it.
I happen to be a firm believer of free speech and strongley oppose censorship of any kind. I totally agree we should all stay with in the laws, I just frown at self censorship and policing ourselves. I understand we need some rules and guidelines, but feel too many of us go too far! Eventually I had to give up my topsites because they were no longer paying for themselves.
As you can see I still have controversial sites such as passed-out.om, which btw, I've had REAL police officers do the male model for us on several sets like on our legal page,
http-//passed-out.com/legal.html
Hey, I know that you folks can do what ever you want on your pages. Thats exactly what I am doing too. What I don't get is why we all being in the same business, some are so easily offended and "suprised" and even more, not fimilar with what the Laws really are. Call me a scumbag, fine, thats an opinion, but accusing me of breaking laws is unfair. Sh*t, llike I said I've used real cops as models several times for my stuff!
Happy Holidays!