-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 20 March 2002 02:51 pm, Thomas Swift wrote: > I had no clue as to how many special interest forums > that Yahoo has going, so today I took a look. From:
> Loring_men_and_boys Like the boy who cried wolf, if you keep crying "homosexual! special interests!" at everything involving gay people, you might end up being ignored. Your accusation of pedophilia may be spot on, but you haven't given one shred of real evidence to support that. And if you do get some real evidence, I think it would be best to give it to the FBI, not us. For all we know the group was started by the FBI and the MPD in a joint investigation not unlike the "Candyman" operation. Anyway, children are at much higher risk of injury and abuse of all types from relatives and acquaintances and even other children, so that worrying about a few gays on the internet seems like a waste of time. And in a city where 3,000 children will be homeless tonight, I think we have much bigger concerns than 124 members of Yahoo! group #7. In fact, I'm very concerned about this homelessness because kids being homeless for more than thirty days is the biggest determinant in juvenile prostitution(1). Now without evidence of actual criminal behavior, what do you want Yahoo! to do, rely on *your* best judgement as to what groups they should carry and should not carry? While Yahoo! has a right to determine what groups they will and won't allow, I think they are rightfully cautious about being overzealous in policing that sort of stuff. When AOL tried to protect children from the "EVIL" people not long ago, they caught a lot of flack from their customers for really screwing it up. - Michael Libby (Cleveland/North Minneapolis). - --------- 1 - Hofstede Report on Juvenile Prostitution in Minnesota: http://www.ag.state.mn.us/office/Crime/hofstede_1.htm#DANGERS%20OF%20JUVENILE%20PROSTITUTION ______Michael_C_Libby__{_x_(at)_ichimunki_(dot)_com_}______ | unsolicited hotmail/yahoo email is deleted due to spam | | my website: http://www.ichimunki.com/ | |____ public key at http://www.ichimunki.com/public.key ____| -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8mTer4ClW9KMwqnMRAq+FAJ9I/v+RFklNFQHDKFlStbiPycsorwCdEtTZ u9nEkDBaC+bvtZ2jmVvtevc= =CEHU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
