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For me it's a no-no to the highest degree to attack me because I'm an art site and literature. The argument against free speech is so strong in my favor no lawyer or organization in their right mind would want to. I'd stomp them so flat and sue them and their lawyers so hard it would put em' all in the poor house. I know, I've got some of the best 1st Amendment lawyers in the country as friends and fam and they know why I have a site.
For you guys who are just in it for the money and put up all kinds of gross shit to make a buck, rebill people stupidly and really break the borders you are gonna get a beat down.
Hugh Hefner, Larry Flint, Bob Guccione all published some of the best interviews, news stories, photo essays in modern day journalism because they didn't have to kiss some politician's ass. Because of that lots of people are alive and well today because they got the truth from alternative and professional sources.
That's half the bitch right there. I use my stuff to get info to artists that they will not get anywhere else because the big corporations and exploiters don't want artists to know about them. Anytime you have a bunch of attention from the public you can use that to fight oppression. One man's obscenity is another man's news.
I remember when I was younger, the tv shows would run those Holocaust films every freakin' day and WWII and WWI shit. Dead babies and shit during the dinner hour no less! To me that was obscene and scarred people. Yet they didn't do it to be gross outs, they did it to remind people what can happen when you don't know what's going on in the world or turn a blind eye to it. Had the people known fully what was going on in Europe they would have protested thus averting a global war perhaps.
It's about mind control in the media, plain and simple.
In our cases we do this for our own reasons. Mine, to use another format to fight the 'man'. It works too! Never had this much freedom to print and I can reach 100s of thousands and even millions in one swipe. They all know I'm kidding around and don't take porn seriously cause they can see me poking fun at it.
Believe-you-the-fuck-me, if I used my powers to attack politicians through cartoons I would stomp every blowhard politico flat. I know I used to work for a huge news service and when I did editorial cartoons I put fear in the hearts of people around the world.
In the comics business we have CBLDF.org that's the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. They supposedly back up retailers and comics guys who get busted for stupid shit.
Bottom line is what your motive is. What your intention really is and what product you produce. You all could learn a lesson from Hef, Flint, Guccione and use your powers to put some real news on your sites and team up to help fight sexual abuse, crime etc.
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