tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385392963347857134.post1605446580853093569..comments2023-10-23T09:51:37.441-05:00Comments on Blog of Pro-Porn Activism: The Continuing War On Porn/Sex...What We Can Do About ItRenegade Evolutionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17905949172886730262noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385392963347857134.post-76000116888771674052008-04-28T15:02:00.000-05:002008-04-28T15:02:00.000-05:00Ernest: Well, I do have to look at this very pers...Ernest: Well, I do have to look at this very personally...a lot of the folks they are going after, EA, JM, is not only what I like to watch (and is linked on my blog, sheesh) but is, well, what I like to make and do...and I am real tired of anyone telling other consenting humans what they can find erotic. I mean, if we all have to live by what other people find offensive...I want all seafood eateries fined and banned, because seafood offends me and makes me ill. I hope the post on Naked City will bring some more attention to the issue as well. Fingers crossed and all.Renegade Evolutionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17905949172886730262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385392963347857134.post-36283146376130145162008-04-28T14:27:00.000-05:002008-04-28T14:27:00.000-05:00Thsnks Ren. Loved your comments about this case on...Thsnks Ren. Loved your comments about this case on your own site and your expression of support over at the EA site. <BR/><BR/>This is exactly the kind of consciousness-raising we'll need first if we're going to mobilize action around this cause.Ernest Greenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14371385468484866133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385392963347857134.post-54720275891560583142008-04-28T13:05:00.000-05:002008-04-28T13:05:00.000-05:00Okay Gents, I posted about this at my place, and I...Okay Gents, I posted about this at my place, and I think I know what my article for Village Voice/Naked City for this week will be about...Renegade Evolutionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17905949172886730262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385392963347857134.post-88263841828751268922008-04-28T02:16:00.000-05:002008-04-28T02:16:00.000-05:00Here is the URL for the site EA has created to tra...Here is the URL for the site EA has created to track the case, provide a forum for advocacy, list useful links and solicit the economic support needed for a long court battle in which not only the fate of legal porn but of Net neutrality itself is at stake:<BR/><BR/>http://www.defendourporn.org<BR/><BR/>I'd go there first, and disseminate the information to be had from the source as widely as possible. Raising some money for The Free Speech Coalition wouldn't be a bad thing either. They're struggling to maintain a permanent lobbying presence in D.C. and to initiate a public relations counter-offensive against the advances of anti-First-Amendment groups in government and the media.<BR/><BR/>I would also suggest using whatever influence any of us might have to explain the issues involved and what we all have to lose here. This isn't just another porn prosecution. This is an attempt to extend government influence over all aspects of the Internet.<BR/><BR/>Petitions, calls, letters? You bet. They need to go to your congressional delegation to let them know, whatever your feelings might be about porn, or about John Stagliano's personal politics (I'd have been happier if he hadn't linked the new site to the one maintained by Reason Magazine), that you support Net neutrality and don't want your money spent on suppressing it, and that this could be a deciding factor in what vote you cast in November. Bear in mind that elected politicians count a hundred unsent letters of agreement for every letter they actually receive, so these things do matter.<BR/><BR/>Another useful tactic, brought back from the porn wars of the Eighties, would be the filing of amicus briefs by various prominent liberal intellectuals defending EA's right to sell legal sexually explicit materials on the Web. It was such a brief, drafted and signed by some of the biggest names in the feminist movement, that helped overturn the MacKinnon ordinance in Minneapolis. <BR/><BR/>A media counter-campaign could also be helpful, particularly in the blogosphere where some here are pretty well-known already. Sites like AlterNet and Counterpunch, lately tilting toward Melissa Farley and Bob Jensen, might tilt the other way if commentaries linking the EA case to the bigger question of government regulation of the Internet began to pop up in the editors' inboxes. If Stan Goff can blow his bilge on The Huffington Post, we can probably get a hearing there too.<BR/><BR/>The point we need to make is that this is not about some dirty pictures. It's about using criminal prosecution to suppress speech on the Web, pure and simple. And interestingly enough, the trailer EA is accused of posting where it might have been seen by minors (not of actually showing it to any specific minors, let us not forget) was for a video made by EA's only woman director, Belladonna, which makes this a matter of particular interest to sex-positive feminists.<BR/><BR/>They've given us a real cause with this one, and we need to raise our voices over it, loud and clear. This case will surely drag on past the next election and we can't afford to let the other side wear us down on it. <BR/><BR/>Today, EA. Tomorrow, this blog goes next.Ernest Greenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14371385468484866133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385392963347857134.post-13793365903513237862008-04-27T21:50:00.000-05:002008-04-27T21:50:00.000-05:00this is such bullshit...any ideas on what to do ab...this is such bullshit...any ideas on what to do about it? Petitions, calls, letters, what?Renegade Evolutionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17905949172886730262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385392963347857134.post-71343783843013358182008-04-27T18:33:00.000-05:002008-04-27T18:33:00.000-05:00Ernest: here's my email addy:anthonyk6319@gmail.c...Ernest: <BR/><BR/>here's my email addy:<BR/><BR/>anthonyk6319@gmail.com<BR/><BR/>AnthonyAnthony Kennersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00103420620416144653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385392963347857134.post-73328701052704166432008-04-27T18:16:00.000-05:002008-04-27T18:16:00.000-05:00Anthony,Thanks for bumping this case up a notch on...Anthony,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for bumping this case up a notch on this blog. I welcome and appreciate your support.<BR/><BR/>I would also appreciate it if you could drop me a personal email, as I have changed computers and can't find your address. I have a question I'd rather ask you in a private conversation rather than on this board.<BR/><BR/>ThanksErnest Greenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14371385468484866133noreply@blogger.com