Is Your Queer Site Censored?
Ezekiel Krahlin
whether or not they have censored (yet) my left-wing queer activist site. Here are the results, with my thoughts on the matter:
N2H2:
"The Site: http://www.gay-bible.org/
is not currently categorized in the N2H2 database."
SURFCONTROL:
"www.gay-bible.org is not in our list"
However, the VERY ACT of submitting a site--when it doesn't appear on their list--apparantly places it on their other list for consideration to INCLUDE
in the banned websites. For a second little window popped up, after I got my search results, that stated:
---begin statement:
Thank you for your submission.
Your suggestion will be reviewed
by our Content Team. If it meets
our criteria, it will be added to our
list within 1-2 business days.
If you test for the inclusion or
amendment of your site and it has
not been added, it does not fit our
category criteria. You can customize
your own product database to
reflect these changes for your
organization.
Please keep in mind that we do not
include legitimate business sites in
our list.
---end of statement
(Hindsight: did I click on the "submit a site" button, by mistake? I don't think so; but I must have. Or perhaps their buttons are confusing enough to
get a lot more submission clicks. I think after the search results show up, the "submit a site" button made me think I needed to click that, to submit
another URL to search. If it said "submit this site", I would have definitely not clicked on it. Thanks to their clever arrangement, I may have screwed
myself, by submitting my own site for censorship. *sigh* Some days I think I never should have gotten out of bed.)
The fact that my URL has "gay" in it, makes it a highly visible target, I'd say. So now that I've tipped 'em off, I'll have to check another time...but for
each time I check, I also jeopardize the existence of my own site! So actually, checking for your site is sort of an exercise in self-defeat...per their
diabolical methods.
Guilty till proven innocent: what a way to go! Homosexuals: perverts by default (unless we somehow, as a collective worldwide entity) "prove" our
"innocence"...which by THEIR definition of "practicing homosexual" is impossible. As long as "religious freedom" is protected in such a horribly
biased manner in this nation, we shall never gain our equal rights via the usual political and legal systems. We must be a lot more pro-active--
aggressive even--via demonstrations on the streets, in cyberspace, and in as many key "hot-button" places and news centers as possible. And we
must do so EN MASSE, for it to work.
Just think of Rosa Parks sitting in the front of the bus, and brave citizens of color sitting at white-only luncheon counters. We need similar strategies--
well-orchestrated in many areas of the country, at specially strategic times--in order to make any more progress towards equality. (Please take note this
is MY opinion, not a factual conclusion.)
For the time is right to take action. We shall soon see the official eradication of ANY AND ALL sexual-minority websites, newsgroups, lists and
message boards across the entire breadth of cyberspace. (Right now, the growing censorship of all gay-relevant sites is being accomplished
indirectly, but most effectively, via these Internet-blocking programs...under the usual hysteria of "what about the children".) And how easy it is for any
homophobe to report any queer site to these blockers...considering the ubiquitous level of homophobia still rampant across all aspects of our society.
Along with that, will come yet another official condemnation, wherein the White House declares homosexuals an imminent threat to Homeland
Security and Amerikan "Fambly Valyooz". We will see officially supported censorship of gay people in many public arenas, popping up all over the
place. We will see an upwelling of mass hatred against gays, which has been surreptitiously planned all along by the Religious Reich...in order to
create a (false) common internal enemy, that the public may be duped and led down the road to totalitarianism.
This is what I foresee...whether through the gift of precognition, or just plain sensitivity to social trends after years of reading gay-related news articles
from many sources, participating in gay newsgroups, and being heavily involved as a community activist. So much research on the same issue for so
many years, CAN give one a sense of paranormal powers, due to a highly tuned sensitivity of one so devoted to a topic...which makes it seem very
easy to predict the near future. But I predicted the rise of gay censorship first on the Internet, some time ago. Check for yourself by viewing this
Usenet article I posted in "soc.motss" on April 19, 1999, called "Internet Censorship Can Wipe Out Gays":
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=371af30f.18654329%40news.cis.dfn.de&rnum=15&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dauthor:ezekiel%
2Bauthor:krahlin%26hl%3Den%26scoring%3Dd%26as_drrb%3Db%26as_mind%3D1%26as_minm%3D1%26as_miny%3D1999%26as_maxd%3D30%
26as_maxm%3D6%26as_maxy%3D1999%26rnum%3D15%26selm%3D371af30f.18654329%2540news.cis.dfn.de
I believe I DO possess a definite psychic ability (precognition, telepathy)...but out of respect for those who do NOT believe in spiritual concepts (such
as atheists), I remain open to consider the second possibility described in the preceding paragragh, which is just a form of "heightened awareness",
without having to include theories of the paranormal.
However, this good news, when searching for an anti-gay site:
"http://www.godhatesfags.com/ is in our list and categorized as Hate Speech"
FINAL THOUGHTS:
Is your site censored? Would checking to find out place your site in jeopardy? I am willing to bet my life on it...it is just too easy to check out whatever
URLs are being searched...even when visitors don't REALLY click on the "submit a site" button. I think THAT button is just a decoy (a method similar
to "opting-out": the visitor is screwed by default).
Sincerely,
Zeke Krahlin
Paranoiac Extraordinaire & Lunatic Liberal
http://www.gay-bible.org/
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