"INTERNET PORN UPDATE"

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'INTERNET PORN UPDATE'

Dr. Stephen Brockway, is a psychiatrist who says he has patients who spend 10 hours at a time on the Internet viewing pornography, "they don't eat, don't sleep," he said. "We call the Internet the crack cocaine of sex addiction."

University of Pennsylvania psychologist Mary Ann Layden warns, that when introduced to the brain, pornography can become "an addictive substance...that's harder for the porn addict to go into remission than the cocaine addict."

WHEN DO WE SAY "ENOUGH"?

Will it be when our children and grandchildren are destroyed because due to years of viewing illegal smut?

Will it be when our spouses, pastors, and friends blow up their careers and lives because they've been secretly addicted to online pornography--the same garbage that fills our email inboxes everyday?

THE VERDICT IS IN ...

How much longer will be wait before Americans march on Washington demanding action on a disease that has truly taken hold of our nation? Do we dare wait until it touches our loved ones?

According to the experts, it may already have, and you just don't yet know about it.

THE TIME IS NOW TO ACT.

The truth is we can't wait any longer. The Internet is literally exploding with unsolicited porn spam messages-- messages that are coming faster and more furious than ever-- each expertly crafted to seduce and corrupt! No, we can't wait any longer. That's precisely why Grassfire is asking for your help.

***ACTION ITEM: PROTECT YOUR FRIENDS

PLEASE FORWARD THIS UPDATE TO YOUR FRIENDS FAMILY AND CLERGY, URGE THEM TO READ THIS REPORT AND TAKE ACTION WITH US IN THE FIGHT TO END ILLEGAL INTERNET PORNOGRAPHY BY CLICKING HERE

Over the next 90 days, we want to raise an army of 450,000 citizens who are demanding an end to addictive and destructive illegal porn spam messages.

GRASSFIRE'S PROMISE TO YOU

If you help us reach our goal we promise to make this a MAJOR ISSUE IN WASHINGTON, and we won't back down until we see REAL ACTION AND REAL RESULTS!

But it starts with you!

Thanks for your help.

Your Friends at Grassfire.net Real Impact. Real Feedback. Real Results (TM)

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P.S. Last week, 4,755 citizens joined our fight against illegal Internet pornography because of your actions. Keep up the great work, and thanks for continuing to spread spreading the grassfire on this vital issue!

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IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE SO ALREADY, PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION BY CLICKING HERE

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[adam_az]

I think you want to create a massive bureaucracy to stem a mild problem.

[beckett]

From the petition:

This campaign has four main goals:
1. Outlaw all unsolicited pornography e-mails (PORN-SPAM)
2. Uphold a current ban on computer-generated child pornograph
3. Uphold a ban on the use of public computers to view pornography and requiring schools and libraries to install pornography-filtering software.
4. Require all adult-oriented websites to migrate to a domain and establish the kid-friendly “.kids” section on the Internet

None of these measures would end pornography on the internet. But what they would do is establish a huge new government bureaucracy which would regulate, regulate, regulate, and slowly strangle the internet to death.

Another case of the cure being worse than the disease.

[Oberon]

Free Republic - the crack cocaine of conservatism.

My first hit was free.

[freedumb2003]

>>Dr. Stephen Brockway, is a psychiatrist who says he has patients who spend 10 hours at a time on the Internet viewing pornography, "they don't eat, don't sleep,"<<

The internet porno diet. Heck, GNC made a billion dollars with a much less effectve method.

[rattrap]

You would have to drink a lot to not want to drink...

or something...

[adam_az]

What a bunch of idiots.

Who is going to police .kids sites as being "appropriate" for kids?

What's to stop someone from making a website like www.naked.kids?

Will "grassfire" buy up and sit on .adult sites to prevent adult web sites from getting good names? Would that be legal? Who will enforce it, and who will pay?

How do you define a "porn" site? What are the penalties if they keep their .com domain name?

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

"Lips that touch liquor shall not touch ours!"

Our liquor, that is.
And keep your nose away from our coke too!

[Maceman]

I think you want to create a massive bureaucracy to stem a mild problem.

I don't think it's such a minor problem. Eighteen months ago I agreed with you. But in the last nine months, the problem has exploded. My mailbox is overflowing with spam everyday. I use Norton Internet Security as a spam filter, which is pretty good. Unfortunately, if I set the filter even at medium, it also screens out my importnat e-mails.

I have one major client whose important e-mails have been automatically sent to the "Delete" folder on several occasion. So now, everytime I get a message notice, I have to check my inbox, my junk folder and my delete folder just to make sure I haven't missed anything urgent.

It is a major pain in the butt, it takes up bandwidth on my website host, and it gets worse everyday. I must get a hundred of these things a day now.

Moreover, I consider that my personal property is being invaded.

I would expect the government to treat as criminals people who invade my home. I expect no less for the scum who invade my computer.

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

This is outrageous and disgusting!

Uh, by the way, were there any pictures that went along with the article?

[KneelBeforeZod]

i was disappointed when michael savage dropped the conservative babes feature off his website...

[oyez]

Quick! Bourbon. MAke that a double!

[Drew68]

Whaddya'll think, fellow freepers?

Ain't gonna happen.

The internet is world-wide, outside the juristiction of our government. Furthermore, laws governing the internet are patently unenforceable. Hackers will always get around them.

[GSWarrior]

"Cocaine isn't addictive. I should know. I've been using it for years."

--Talullah Bankhead

[adam_az]

From a technical level, there's no way to regulate this.

Often, the mail and/or website are located in other countries, where we have no jurisdiction.

How much do you think it would take for the Department of Justice to create a special division of thousands of people to investigate "spam" mail? How will this bureaucracy be paid for?

You might want to get a mail provider which uses one of the Realtime Blackout Lists to filter mail, which are constantly updated lists of known spam sites. Or, use a "white list" service where only emails you specifically allow come to you.

Or, just delete them without even opening them. That's the easiest. Most mail doeasn't use much bandwidth - spam mails are usually small, so the sender can send as many as possible.

[mlmr]

I am using Mailwasher and am very pleased.

[MalcolmS]

>>>If you stay out of that part of town, you have nothing to worry about. <<<

This is precisely the problem. That part of town, as you put it, comes to you whether you want it or not. I have a number of filters on my email (up to around 60 "rules" at last count, plus countless blocked senders), some still gets through.

Here are their tactics
1) no text in the body of the message--just an image
2) mis-spelled subject lines to thwart filters (these at least I can delete myself)
3) use of foreign text characters to thwart filters
3) completely innocent subject lines
4) forged/spoofed sender i.d.'s

This is like setting up guards outside your house. Hookers and strippers come in and get thru the guards disguised as mail carriers, old friends, whatever, then flash you through your windows and demonstrate sex acts on your front porch.

If only it were so simple as "staying out of that part of town". How can I keep "that part of town" from invading my home and showing pictures of oral sex to my pre-teen daughter? (As it is, she's not allowed near the computer alone, and never nearby while I'm opening email).

You may regard these people as anal-retentive types intent on restricting your freedom. Maybe they just want to be free from pornographic trespassers.

My proposal.

It should be legal, even encouraged to hack and launch denial of service attacks on any porn-monger who attempts to circumvent filters by mis-spelling or misleading subject lines or message text.

[LivingNet]

Free Republic - the crack cocaine of conservatism.
My first hit was free.

I tried Free Republic once...but I didn't read anything.

[spodefly]

Porn spam is a pain, that is for sure, and my analogy does break down when "that part of town" starts showing up at your doorstep, so to speak. I don't have any kids to worry about, but I hate the assualt when I open an email and there is someone's ass (or an explicit sex act of some variation) prominently displayed in the email.

I am using MailWasher Pro (http://www.firetrust.com/) and it is pretty good about keeping that stuff from actually reaching the inbox.

I do hope also that some of the anti-spam legislation can help in this regard. I am not a fan of governmental involvement in most issues, but spam is becoming a problem that is too big to overlook, and not just on moral grounds. I am all for fighting spam, either by the means you propose, or by legislation. We have legislation now that restricts telemarketers ... it should be the same for email.

[MalcolmS]

Legislation won't work because of jurisdiction issues. A guy could run a bunch of porn servers off a freighter with a satellite dish and not be subject to any national jurisdiction.

The only solution I can think of is to issue "Letters of Marque" to distinguish internet privateers from the pirates, like in days of yore. Privateers would be allowed to take down offenders without fear of prosecution on their home turf.

I can see problems with this idea, but I can't think of a better one.

[ffusco]

I'm either gullible or just need attention, or both.

I received an e-mail that read: How have you been, Frank?


An ad for bigger balls came up and now I get about 30 spams a day. Next worst offender was when I inquired about a re-financing my mortgage.