Quote Originally Posted by nova
Did anyone else see this:

'October 20, 2005 - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has announced that his office will specifically target "bestiality, urination, defecation, as well as sadistic and masochistic behavior" in pursuing new obscenity prosecutions. The Department of Justice began recruiting in late July for a new anti-obscenity squad to pursue obscenity prosecutions...'

The full article is here

If they take this to its ultimate conclusion, no story site hosted within the US is safe...As usual, it is politicians looking for a soft target and a quick boost to their popularity, but it goes deeper than that. Start censoring the written word for the so-called "public good" and that's yet another freedom quietly eroded...it truly makes me shudder.
Based on what the grand inquisitor said, it appears that what Jinn is suggesting is too little and perhaps too late. I wonder who is advising him?If I were in his shoes I'd have to seriously consider shutting down the site and totally revamping it to weather the gathering storm. My guess is that he'd have to unilaterally close out well over fifty percent of the current material now archieved within the BDSM Library. There is no way that he can realistically force authors to totally gut their works just to conform to this latest bout of idiocy. On the other hand with the new Bush Supreme Court, it may very well be possible to effectively eliminate free speech in this country, a chilling thought. Does anyone remember the old Upton Sinclair book entitled "It Can't Happen Here"? Well children, you are witnessing the beginning of it happening here!