[NCSG-Discuss] On Diversity and Discrimination

[Marc Perkel]

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.

On 2/4/2013 12:02 AM, Edward Morris wrote:
> 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.
>
> Ed
>
> On Sunday, February 3, 2013, David Cake wrote:
>
>     Industry organisations for commercial operators are not within our
>     charter, but advocacy organisations are.
>     Cheers
>             David
>
>     On 04/02/2013, at 1:27 PM, Andrew A. Adams <aaa at meiji.ac.jp
>     <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
>     > You wrote:
>     >> I have friends who run sex worker activism NGOs (including one
>     that is
>     >> sex worker run by charter). Next time I see them I'll ask if
>     they want
>     >> to join NCUC. I think they'd be perfectly welcome here, and
>     would fit
>     >> in, but I'm not sure how much of a policy priority ICANN issues
>     might
>     >> be for them (but hey, .xxx, IFFOR, legal restrictions on
>     advertising
>     >> in some jurisdictions, etc - maybe they do have enough to justify
>     >> their participation, I don't know).�
>     >
>     > I'm not sure all of these fall within our charter. Remember,
>     there's a rider
>     > preventing non-profit organisations that are just representatives of
>     > for-profits (e.g. Chambers of Commerce) from joining NCSG.
>     >
>     > --
>     > Professor Andrew A Adams aaa at meiji.ac.jp <javascript:;>
>     > Professor at Graduate School of Business Administration,  and
>     > Deputy Director of the Centre for Business Information Ethics
>     > Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan http://www.a-cubed.info/
>     >
>     >
>

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