Call the ACLU, my blog has fallen victim to a vast right wing conspiracy! I just got an email from my friend Shari who was at a conference in Denver for four days and didn’t bring her laptop. When she tried to check my blog on the hotel computer she got a message saying that it was being blocked because it was an OBSCENE WEB SITE! The keyword that triggered the block was “cunnilingus,” mentioned in my recent post about sex education in the schools. Hmmm, apparently fellatio is acceptable but cunnilingus sends the Internet filtering agents into a tizzy. Says a lot about the software developers, no? Should I be embarrassed by this classification of my site or should I wear it as a badge of honor, like being on Nixon’s enemy list?
I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks that the censorship wolves in this country are careening out of control. The latest craziness began a year ago with Janet Jackson’s left breast but now it's getting so bad that the McCarthy Hearings are starting to look like the good old days! I’ve been following the insane protests from groups like Focus on the Family and Concerned Women of America (how do these loonies co-opt these names?) against the Oscar-nominated movie “Kinsey.” Apparently they think Hollywood has whitewashed the life of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey while they maintain he is largely responsible for high divorce rates, child abuse, incest, pornography, and AIDS. They pass out leaflets at theatres claiming that Kinsey was a pedophile and publish papers debunking his research. Among other things, they claim his estimate that 10% of the population is homosexual is a gross exaggeration and that the actual figure is closer to 1 percent. What?! There was a higher percentage than that at Strom Thurmond's memorial service!
All this squelching of my First Amendment rights has worn me out. If I’m not in a federal prison facing obscenity charges, I’ll write more tomorrow.
Danny,
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-MarkyMark
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Posted by: MarkyMark | February 10, 2005 at 06:21 PM
Oy, Mark, that is so weird. I can't believe your computer has a mind of its own--can Julie Christie's "Demon Seed" computer rape be far behind?
By the way, I just looked at your company's website which is so COOL (as I expected).
Posted by: Danny | February 10, 2005 at 06:58 PM