links for 2008-11-09
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"This backhanded compliment didn’t so much annoy as puzzle me. Really, how could they be so sure all the images they stole were compliant? After all, Jensen and his allies don’t hesitate to characterize pornographers as pimps, rapists, slavers and torturers. And yet despite the implied willingness to risk the legal consequences of those acts inherent in such accusations, we’re presumed to be extremely fastidious record keepers. I’m rarely at a loss for words, but Jensen had me with that. It was so outrageous an alibi as to inspire laughter, and indeed he insisted he was making a joke when I told him so. He saw no legal problem with this brand of 'fair use,' and if I felt there was 'a moral problem' with it, well, that was just my opinion."
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"I wanted so badly to exit the industry but I couldn’t, so each time I did any sex work because it was the quickest way to make the money that I needed, it felt horrible. I then found my mentors in the sex workers rights movement and started to work to change what I did not like in the sex industry and committed my life to enacting that change on many political levels. I also continued my career in sex work and was able to be worlds more healthy, safe and prosperous since I was surrounded my love, support, encouragement and NOT shame for what I was doing. Unpacking my internal whore-aphobia happened before I was even having intercourse for money."
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"To some extent, this is true – but I think it misses the whole point of blogging in the first place. The power of the platform was never that Joe Blow could become a 'star' or rise to the Technorati Top 100 – it was simply the promise of an easy way for anyone (from a large corporation to a guy in his living-room) to publish on the Internet."
Nov 09 2008 07:30 am | Category: del.icio.us links
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