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We should have an advocate from the adult industry in the group.
They are extremely oppressed in general. They are often lumped in
with human trafficking and child abuse and free speech about sexual
issues is under attack from the left and the right. California
passed a really bad amendment just last year under the banner of
human trafficking that might criminalize some web sites I host.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/4/2013 12:02 AM, Edward Morris
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CALMg_ZTqQeA=OJ99BCtF9MuOHmqet8k+QATOEeOo35CbOcO3OA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">ICANN has multiple lawsuits in play involving the
adult entertainment industry. I think it would be fantastic to
have a civil society organisation representing sex workers to draw
upon if the issues involved in the lawsuits percolate down to our
level.
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<div>Ed<span></span><br>
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On Sunday, February 3, 2013, David Cake wrote:<br>
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Industry
organisations for commercial operators are not within our
charter, but advocacy organisations are.<br>
Cheers<br>
David<br>
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On 04/02/2013, at 1:27 PM, Andrew A. Adams <<a
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onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'aaa@meiji.ac.jp')">aaa@meiji.ac.jp</a>>
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> You wrote:<br>
>> I have friends who run sex worker activism NGOs
(including one that is<br>
>> sex worker run by charter). Next time I see them I'll
ask if they want<br>
>> to join NCUC. I think they'd be perfectly welcome
here, and would fit<br>
>> in, but I'm not sure how much of a policy priority
ICANN issues might<br>
>> be for them (but hey, .xxx, IFFOR, legal restrictions
on advertising<br>
>> in some jurisdictions, etc - maybe they do have
enough to justify<br>
>> their participation, I don't know).�<br>
><br>
> I'm not sure all of these fall within our charter.
Remember, there's a rider<br>
> preventing non-profit organisations that are just
representatives of<br>
> for-profits (e.g. Chambers of Commerce) from joining
NCSG.<br>
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> --<br>
> Professor Andrew A Adams <a
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onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'aaa@meiji.ac.jp')">aaa@meiji.ac.jp</a><br>
> Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,
and<br>
> Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information
Ethics<br>
> Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.a-cubed.info/"
target="_blank">http://www.a-cubed.info/</a><br>
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