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Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.

errare
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - O. Wilde

Don't you have some sort of Constitutional guarantee or something?

It's not McCarthy that is alive and well in the US. I would like to say Bush but I do not know the complete context of these new rules are being imposed (ie the person(s) responsible for the laws affecting us here on b.com)

And to have no context put to it? I mean that is ludicrous. What if my personal name was Lolita? My name becomse censored.

I think the post is wise but this is significant enough you need to email a notice to ALL members.
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MT

Without data, all you are is just another person with an opinion.
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Old stuff as well -- basically, depending on the severity of what we need to do, those words may need to be completely eradicated from the site, its history, its users, etc.

VISA primarily, as interpreted and enforced by the two middlemen between us and the actual VISA conglomerate. My personal opinion is that it's part of a backroom deal with right wing congresspeople to help "clean up the internet" in return for bankruptcy law reform that's favorable to VISA. But that is my personal speculation, based on bits and pieces I've learned over the past few years.

Constitutional guarantees apply to citizens and the government. The clever thing here, in my opinion and based on my informed speculation, is the government's use of a private company to enforce the speech restrictions. VISA itself is under no obligation to allow free speech. And as long as everything is done informally in backroom deals, there's not a whole lot anyone can do.

The answer isn't just to bail on VISA; even if that were financially feasible (which it's not), Mastercard isn't far behind them.

It may or may not be a coincidence that this is happening in the weeks leading up to Protection from Pornography week, a cheesy campaign that only gained legitimacy last year when Bush became the first President to endorse it. Oh, and this year, the election falls right in the middle of said cheesy campaign.

Cheers
-b
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Absolutely, positively not. Depending on what happens, if these rules come down the way I'm hearing they might, we will be out of business if caught trying to get away with breaking the rules. We'll have no choice but to pass on that reality to users.

Cheers
-b
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Hope everything works out.

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We're really not into any attempted-sneaky solutions. At some point, VISA would wise up and realize that the sites are the same, and retroactively raid our previous payments in addition to levying pretty huge fines. There really aren't any clever "get around the rules" solutions that last for any length of time.

Cheers
-b
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