NEWS: Suicidegirls.com vs the War on Pornography

Company policy is company policy. (And company actions are company actions.)

Government policy is government policy. (And government actions are government actions.)

If I don't like company policy, I can sit in silence or leave the site and find another place to play, or set up my own.

If I run afoul of the government, even by doing something that nobody is being directly hurt by in any tangible way, then I may end up being taken to court and fined or jailed.

Seriously, this has nothing to do with whether I agree with the way SG staff run their business, or whether I would run such a business differently. The point is that it is their business to run as they see fit, for better or worse.

But their business is none of the government's business. That's the one and only issue that matters right here and now.

That help?

This is billed, unless I misread, as a place for pin-up rock and goth girls: pictures, journals and videos. Not "a place to come and share in a diverse culture of likeminded people". That's just a bonus. And if you find they're not likeminded for whatever reason you can stop interacting with that bunch of assholes and go find some like minded people to hang out with elsewhere.

Then after you spent all that money on management consultants you found out that 10 of them were leaving the area, 10 of them just needed a career break, 10 of them got jobs elsewhere. There are lots of possible reasons for people to do lots of things. Jumping to conclusions is a good way to piss money up the wall in business and a good way to make a twat fo yourself in real life.

The really good thing about not being a member of staff, a lawyer retained by the site, one of the people who left and of living on the other side of the fucking Atlantic Ocean is that I can just sit back and let it all sort itself out.

If when the dust settles it turns out that there was some Illuminati style conspiracy with assassins and double dealing and people being shot in the head for knowing too much then I can act on having that information in the fullest manner possible.

If on the other hand it turned out to be a storm in a teacup involving breakdown of communication and personality clash I can continue to do nothing.

If it comes to light that this is a dark place of foul demons I shall leave it and never think of it again. I shall not be erecting some perverse temple of hate that depends for its gravity and sunlight on the very thing it professes to loathe.

I would say that any organisation or group that has this kind of arrangement as its core is conflicted and its perspective perverse of necessity.

The simplest explanation for these things is not the most dramatic. The mundanest explanation is probably the closest to the truth. The most boring explanation I can come up with is unspectacular and not really worth talking about.

Once again I and several other people can repeat the "War on Porn" and associated chilling effect are real, they are impostions of government and that's different to some people in an SME falling out with some of their freelancers.

And as I said before maybe their is a contradiction in absolute terms here but big deal. There is a rational, comfortable explanation for why it exists. So until anything other than smoke and whispers surfaces to unsettle me further I'm just going to chill and assume that everything will turn out okay in the end.

To all those who say their votes dont matter: Just because you didnt win, doesnt mean you didnt make a difference. The point is, that the majority of 18 to 30 year olds dont vote, so we get christian fundimentalists in the White House. EVERYONE needs to stand up and be counted. Only when something is taken away from you do you get upset. Where we you when the patriot act was renewed? What did you say when the PA was used to target smoke shops and arrest ppl for haveing a pipe to smoke with? What did you say when Pat Robertson advocating assaination?
Come on now, you think this country was founded by ppl just talking? They sacrificed and made difficutl choices, and even died and in some cased sacrificed thier families for the hope, just the hope of freedom. You know, the freedon you enjoy right now sitting on your ass saying "i dont wanna vote im {insert excuse here}. The point is, why arent you writing a letter? why arent you taking it to the streets outside SG Headquarters? Why arent you doing something besdies saying "Bush Sucks!"?
You know what im doing? Running for public office. Making comments in my Magazine that I publish. And as soon as I am able, I will be polling radio and talk shows about doing interviews about his crazy shit. You wanna help. email me.
If not, you have no right to complain.
pmmagazine@pmmagazine.net

i find this all too funny

Still no answer, I take it? A pity, that.

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/28/suicide_girls_rumord.html

i was planning on doing that but they took my pictures away

ah fuck bush

I made it pretty public. For future reference, it's best to ask me a question on my journal if you really want a response.

This is why I ALWAYS vote. This is why I GET INVOLVED. This is why I SCREAM & SHOUT.

This is why I... want to chain myself to the White House railings naked and drenched in pigs blood.

I was asking NA_Mike, actually, not you. Sorry for the confusion.

this is fucking BULLSHIIIIIITTTTTTTTTT!!!

and remeber folks1 support your local president,,,,
asshole