Another axe to grind?
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:J5PA47UbAHQJ:findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_n733/ai_19736016+%22bill+pinyon%22+congress&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=firefox
Cyberporn vs. censorship
Advocate, The, May 13, 1997
Meanwhile, the CDA (Communications Decency Act) has already made an impact on the gay cyberporn industry. Before the bill was introduced, the Web site Badpuppy was accessed about 300,000 times a day, says operator Bill Pinyon. After the bill was signed by Clinton, the number of people visiting the site dropped by 75% and business remained at a low ebb for three months. Pinyon thinks customers were scared off or assumed Badpuppy wouldn't be able to offer any more explicit photos.
Eventually business bounced back, and Pinyon projects that Badpuppy will earn $3 million this year against $1.5 million in operating costs. Indeed, Badpuppy proves how lucrative gay erotic Web sites can be. Begun as a hobby from Pinyon's home, the site now employs 22 people in a two-story office building. "We are keeping a minimum of 400 people on-line, 24 hours a day," Pinyon says. "And we're peaking at about 750 people on-line," the maximum the site's capacity allows.
Communications Decency Act
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:_Sjopp3gIn4J:www.epic.org/cda/+Communications+Decency+Act&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2&client=firefox
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:_smiNxylkZkJ:news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6122045.html+Communications+Decency+Act+foley&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2&client=firefox
Five attempts at Net crackdowns
Perhaps more than any other politician since Sen. James Exon, the Nebraska Democrat who drafted the 1996 Communications Decency Act, Foley focused on parents' worries about children and the Internet.
Foley, who was co-chairman of the House's Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, was the lead sponsor for at least five bills in 2005 and 2006 aimed at protecting minors. One, the Child Modeling Exploitation Prevention Act, would create a new federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for anyone who exploits minors by using their image for purposes other than legitimate marketing. (According to the leaked chat transcripts, Foley actively solicited photographs from minors.)
Axes....looks like it.
In addition to votes on the broader gay issues, it looks like Foley hit Pinyon (and probably others)in the pocketbook, too.
Trying to correlate Foley's actions with his legislative focus puts my brain in a tailspin. He made himself more vulnerable with votes, laws and behavior.
I wonder if there's a gay telephone sex line associated with badpuppy.com. Rogers outed Ed Schrock on his website by posting an audiotape of Schrock callin into one.
Wow, it didn't occur to me that Foley was targeted because his anti-porn leggislation threatened to cost THE PEOPLE RUNNING HIS SERVER big time $$$$$. So there is more than one reason to be downloading his emails.