Free Speech Coalition - who to vote for 2006 Board of Directors?

[RawAlex]

Originally Posted by SirMoby

Isn't that what the .XXX domains are designed to do? Of course the real purpose is to make the investors huge amounts of money but removing most of the competition in one swift move is brilliant.

Yes, alll it requires is the complicity (intentional or unintentional) of the credit card companies or to a lesser degree the US government to make it a slam dunk. I see a day when the only adult sites that can get processing are on a .XXX domain, and all the reasonable domains will be held by the big guys.

I could see companies like Google and Adbrite and whoever only accepting adult paid listings from .xxx domains, and I can even picture search engines like google filtering adult keywords to return only .xxx results, potentially banning or blacklisting .com domains in the process.

The end result is that the big guys will get MUCH bigger, remove the affiliate model almost entirely from the game, and keep all the pie for themselves (which in many cases would take marginal business into huge profit businesses overnight... all that affiliate money not getting paid out...)

Alex

[Bill]

Connor, thank you very much for stopping by and writing.

One of the weaknesses of the online adult business community is that we are so used to being able to do EVERYTHING online, that when online communications are missing, it just doesn't seem natural to us to pick up phones or write letters.

A lot of our dynamic towards the FSC is based on this. At a critical time, when we were all very interested in the FSC, we felt shut out by an older school organization that was built on phone calls and letters.

When I joined, I had to make a phone call and give my credit card info over the phone. I think that was the only phone call credit card order I've made in the last 3 years.

We are craving a better online experience with the FSC.

There are a lot of people ready to give more money for lobbying and legal war. I think there are a lot of people who would help pay for a better online presence, including board spokepersons whose job it would be to visit the boards, post updates, and try to answer questions.

I guarantee you we appreciate your stopping by and telling us something about your experiences and opinions.

[ConnorYoung]

Originally Posted by Bill

Connor, thank you very much for stopping by and writing.

One of the weaknesses of the online adult business community is that we are so used to being able to do EVERYTHING online, that when online communications are missing, it just doesn't seem natural to us to pick up phones or write letters.

A lot of our dynamic towards the FSC is based on this. At a critical time, when we were all very interested in the FSC, we felt shut out by an older school organization that was built on phone calls and letters.

When I joined, I had to make a phone call and give my credit card info over the phone. I think that was the only phone call credit card order I've made in the last 3 years.

We are craving a better online experience with the FSC.

There are a lot of people ready to give more money for lobbying and legal war. I think there are a lot of people who would help pay for a better online presence, including board spokepersons whose job it would be to visit the boards, post updates, and try to answer questions.

I guarantee you we appreciate your stopping by and telling us something about your experiences and opinions.

Thanks for the kind words.

And yup, I was pretty amazed that online credit card services hadn't been set up... but turns out that was partially because of new FSC staffers who weren't up to speed yet on the website, and partially because what they thought initially would turn out to be a solution was not in fact a solution. Eventually CCBill stepped up to help, but it was very unfortunate that online credit card payments weren't set up back in, say, June. I saw the design of the new website... it's a step in the right direction, but there's still some refinement that needs to be done before it will be ready for prime time, so to speak.

[tickler]

Originally Posted by RawAlex

Yes, alll it requires is the complicity (intentional or unintentional) of the credit card companies or to a lesser degree the US government to make it a slam dunk. I see a day when the only adult sites that can get processing are on a .XXX domain, and all the reasonable domains will be held by the big guys.

I could see companies like Google and Adbrite and whoever only accepting adult paid listings from .xxx domains, and I can even picture search engines like google filtering adult keywords to return only .xxx results, potentially banning or blacklisting .com domains in the process.

Alex

Have you noticed the discussion about forcing adult stuff to a different port instead of using the default port 80. It would make it real easy for surfers to deactivate the feed. But then who decides what has to go on the new port.