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Chilling Effects - re internet content censorship
« on: December 01, 2010, 10:10:55 PM »
http://chillingeffects.org/

A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics.

Do you know your online rights? Have you received a letter asking you to remove information from a Web site or to stop engaging in an activity? Are you concerned about liability for information that someone else posted to your online forum? If so, this site is for you.

Chilling Effects aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities. We are excited about the new opportunities the Internet offers individuals to express their views, parody politicians, celebrate their favorite movie stars, or criticize businesses. But we've noticed that not everyone feels the same way. Anecdotal evidence suggests that some individuals and corporations are using intellectual property and other laws to silence other online users. Chilling Effects encourages respect for intellectual property law, while frowning on its misuse to "chill" legitimate activity.

The website offers background material and explanations of the law for people whose websites deal with topics such as Fan Fiction, Copyright, Domain Names and Trademarks, Anonymous Speech, and Defamation.

In addition, we want your help. We are gathering a searchable database of Cease and Desist notices sent to Internet users like you. We invite you to input Cease and Desist letters that you've received into our database, to document the chill. We will respond by linking the legalese in the letters to FAQs that explain the allegations in plain English.

Periodically, we issue "weather reports" assessing the climate for Internet activity based on the letters we receive and news reports. What areas (topics, legal categories, jurisdictions) are coolest to online conduct? What activities risk being frozen out altogether? What conduct gets the warmest reception?
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Re: Chilling Effects - re internet content censorship
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2010, 10:25:56 PM »
Well, based in the Chinese, British and Australian country-wide firewalls, I'd say PORN and especially the type of 'violent porn' that our members here appreciate is in danger of being totally 'frozen out'.  Hell, even on other PORN forums, many of them say "no kiddie porn, no bestiality, no rape porn..."

Gee, THANKS A WHOLE FUCKING LOT for lumping us in with bestiality and kiddy porn!

<grumbles.... assholes...>

When it's done by professional actors and they're NOT being forced to do anything that makes them uncomfortable, I fail to see why any COUNTRY would forbid it.  I mean, REALLY, let's grow up, folks!  None of us are MAKING you watch it if you don't want to, and in fact you have to pretty much hunt really hard to FIND it.  Those of us that DO enjoy a bit of roughhousing with our porn shouldn't be regarded in the same breath as KIDDY PORN.  Anyone doing so is automatically a complete freaking IDIOT.  It's consensual sex between professionals.

edit: Let me go a bit further,

EVERY kind of 'porn' is obscene to some little old grandmother in New Hampshire.  Using 'community standards' to decide whether it's acceptable is saying that I am not allowed to enjoy an OTHERWISE LEGAL type of sex fun merely because the local yokels think that leaving the lights on during THE NASTY is obscene.  Gimme a fuckin' break, this is the 21st century, not Torquemada's Italy.

Maybe we need to fight these assholes with their own legal loopholes: we're all members of THE CHURCH OF ROUGH PORN.  Preferably the rougher the better for those of us in the Church heirarchy.  ;)  As of now, I'm officially an ordained minister in THE CHURCH OF ROUGH PORN, and any backwoods ape that says that it's illegal can fight me on both FREE SPEECH and FREEDOM OF RELIGION basis.  Fight that, nitwits!

Instead of some old, dead guy on a cross, let's use something from the NEW canons:



Yeah, much better than those OTHER religious icons, thanks!  :angel:
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