Apr 06 2007
Censor Billy C.
A friend runs a site with xxx adult content. Of course he needs a payment processor and so he filled in the usually forms at ccBill; the most common payment processor for that kind of content. Little did he know that he was going to be reviewed with a thoroughness that borders on neurotic. Within 24 hours he received a long list of pictures and links that needed to be removed before his site could join the payment program.
According to Billy C. the girls on pages 256, 457, 832 and 902 looked kind of young and the page linking to a site – containing a link to yet another site – was linking to content Billy did not approve of. Etc. Etc. It was a fucking phone book of adjustments. I mean, I know what he is going through — as an adult Webmaster it is hard to check all of your own content. Believe me, all that fucking gets very, very boring if you have to look at it day in day out.
Earlier on I had some problems with ccBill myself because they wanted me to remove the painting Leda and the Swan at AMEA, because in their vision that was considered to be bestiality. I have a dirty mind, but I would have never thought of that Swan to.. Never mind, it is just too damn stupid.
In the mid-nineties we had hosting services and search engines who thought they were omnipotent and they would block whatever content they felt like blocking and now the payment processors and the cable companies seem to feel that they are the ones who should control the web.
It is my strong conviction that in *all* cases the Webmaster and the site owner should be held responsible for content. If third parties think certain content is illegal they should inform the local police or file a lawsuit. If they do not have a real case, they should simply be quiet and do what they are best at; leaning back and receiving kickbacks on transactions of people who happen to work for a living. That is how grownups deal with the same issues in printed media.
I have always mistrusted people who have such a keen eye for girls being over or under 18. To me all women under the age of 30 look like they are way too young to take part in an adult movie, but that’s just me, I guess.
Have you ever noticed how often child porn crusaders later turn out to be producers of child porn? Just as often as sport coaches and Catholic priests are child abusers. I know one thing; if I would suffer from that mental illness called pedophilia and needed a good excuse to look for child pornography on the web; I would certainly join the vice squad or the staff of ccBill. Every day of the week you have all the goodies you can lay your hands on without taking the risk to get caught.
This is the only reasonable explanation why ccBills reviews of sites are so unbelievably thorough. They must be pedophiles themselves. Mark my words; before this decade is over we will read about the staff of ccBill being arrested for the distribution of child porn.