It's has been a while since we added some new email responses,
gee it's only been what, almost a year? But we recently received a few we couldn't resist throwing in.
Hello all,
I wanted to extend my personal thanx to the four of you.
Had it not been for your site I would have never challenged
myself to learn all I could about HTML, so that my SM site
would turn out the best I could possibly make it. Because
of this I have recently landed a job as an internet intern
at my local public library developing web tutorials for the
public and updating the staff on the internet and e-mail.
It is the most fun full time summer job! (And pretty good
paying too! ^.-^) Not only that but I get to return every
summer!
So once again, thank you. I love your site and keep up the
good work! I can't wait to see the results of the 3rd SM
peoples choice awards.
This is actually from the same person as above...
This is just to inform you of a place that may be
instigating rumours of improper spelling. I went to this
lycos page that informed me that the spelling of Usagi's
name is Usagi Tsuki... I thought you might like to know.
http://www.beta.lycos.com/entertainment/celebrities/celebs/sailormoon.html
Great now lycos is screwing with the names! As if Mixxzine wasn't bad enough! ;)
I'm not an avid reader of your site, heck I don't get much
time to read
anything but my own site. However on a slow day at work I
wandered over to
see what was going on with your site. I read through your
latest rant
concerning the hentaiFREE campaign. I have some comments
toward the whole
mess.
On our site, Grep Sailormoon Star (www.sailormoon.org), we
don't host
hentai images. However we are not members of the hentaiFREE
campaign.
We've been invited (begged if you will) to join hentaiFREE
but had to
refuse due to a major disagreement with their mission
statement. I will
not put hentai images anywhere children will be able to
access them. I
don't think they should be removed from the net. I am very
much for the
freedom of the individual to decide for themselves what
they should and
shouldn't do.
I have never stumbled into a hentai site. I don't know what
all the fuss
is about. The only time I've run across hentai images is
when the link
said that there was hentai there. The whole premise of
hentaiFREE is based
on the false assertion that hentai is so prevalent that
kids will fall
into it without looking. Most of the time the hentai sites
charge for
access, most kids don't have the credit cards required to
access these
areas.
I know because I look through hentai sites. Yes, I look at
hentai. Most of
it is trash. Some of it is quite funny. Now and again I
find images that
aren't hentai and end up in my library where it belongs
.Sometimes I find
something that is a good work of art that is too hentai to
be in my
library, these end up in my private collection. I'm of
legal age, I've
taken courses in the social and philosophical impact of
pornography, and I
understand how most pornography is a horrible
objectification of women.
What many people forget is that showing a naked body can be
artful and
non-damaging - nudity does not imply pornography.
My question is: Why are the parents not surfing with their
children? I am
a strong advocate for parents and children surfing
together, I don't think
children should surf alone. Not only for the hentai and
pornography
reasons but also because children often give out
information they
shouldn't to untrustworthy web sites. I know for a fact
that kids sign up
for memberships at our website all the time without
parental guidance even
though we say in several places that if you are not 17 you
must have your
parent's permission.
There are, as I see it, two solutions to the problem. The
first solution
is a technology solution, filters, surf-control,
smart-proxy servers and
so on. This solution prevents the symptoms but does nothing
to address the
cause of the problem. The second solution is a behavioral
correction to
the problem, parents surfing with their kids, or making
sure the kids
understand why looking at hentai is not acceptable. The
problem is not a
technology problem, it is a behavior problem: don't change
the technology,
change the behavior.
Anime is an art form. Like any form of art it can be
extended into a
pornographic relm. We call this extention hentai. Is it
bad? No, it just
is--I am not qualified to judge good from evil for every
person on the
planet. Is it appropriate for children? I don't think so,
but who am I to
tell you what is appropriate for your children. Not being
appropriate for
children does not mean removing it from the net. Remove the
ability and/or
desire for children to access hentai and we've solved the
problems that
the hentaiFREE group has without taking the extreme actions
that
hentaiFREE puts forth.
Scot Bontrager
Out of the small ton of emails we received in reaction to the HentaiFREE rant, this
one made the most sense, or at least best argued our own feelings on HentaiFREE.
If you want to check out rating services for safe surfing that do a
much better and more professional job than HentaiFREE check out:
SafeSurf Rating System
RSACi Rating System
August 17th, 1999
