[thechat] Fwd: site hosted on your service
Erik Mattheis
gozz at gozz.com
Thu Apr 10 16:14:28 CDT 2003
Props to my host, Digital Forest!
Begin forwarded message:
> From: abuse role account <abuse at forest.net>
> Date: Wed Apr 9, 2003 11:47:29 PM US/Central
> To: "xxxx xxxxx" <xxxxxx at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: site hosted on your service
>
>> I think this site is hosted on your web service, isn't it?
>
> It is a colocated server in one of our facilities, not a
> digital.forest-owned hosting server.
>
>> http://www.shockingelk.com/pictures/liberated_iraqis/
>>
>> You may want to see if it violates any of your TOS - posting pictures
>> of mutitlated minors has to be a violation of something.
>
> Violation of good taste perhaps, but not law.
>
>> sickening.
>
> It may be sickening, but it is not in violation of our TOS or AUP.
>
> It is not against US law to display pictures such as these, in fact it
> is in the spirit and the intent of the US Constitution that such
> opinions be allowed to exist. To paraphrase a man who was a
> philosophical guide for the United States' founders: "I may not agree
> with you, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
>
> We would rather be defending rights, than squelching them. Opinion, no
> matter how misguided, or in opposition to mainstream political
> viewpoint should not be censored.... at least in *this* country.
>
> Regards,
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