Online Censorship, Yahoo, MSN, and Hotmail

[mntleo2]

Here is the story:

The director of an organization I volunteer for, sent out a flyer about the play The Vagina Monologues, which was being presented in our area. Now, she cannot send any email to anyone who has an email address with Hotmail, Yahoo, or MSN. I get email all the time for penis extensions, and breast augmentations but mention the word "vagina" in an email and you are banned for life. Why is it that women's sexual anatomy names are considered so bad when men's are blasted all over the place? Like women are supposed to be ashamed of their private parts, but men, well their privies are not even considered. Does anyone ever think women might be offended to see men's penis extensions in their email? N-o-o-o! This makes me mad.

BTW she tried to email the "abuse" people at all of them, but they will not even allow her to email them, it bounces back too. Nobody complained about what was sent out on the private list either, so this is all on these companies. Now she has to mail everything out on snail mail instead of saving some bucks by simply emailing stuff.


The name of this organization is Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition ( http://www.wroc.org ). We are an organization of low income women who advocate for economic issues and low income parents (men would be included too, it is just all women right now, is all). Send them some love if you have anything to contribute, it is a great organization. After comparing notes, several of us have come to realize that we have also gotten mail from WROC that was opened, as if wee are some sort of subversive scary terrorist group or something. Like a bunch of welfare moms are SO threatening to this country!

We believe in peace and loving kids and all that stuff, noner of us would hurt a fly. What is WRONG with these people? Sheesh.

Cat In Seattle

[ghostsofgiants]

1. I just emailed my hotmail address from another email account with the word vagina with no problems.

[Call Me Wesley]

2. You're doomed ...

But also, you're Canadian. I remember - back in the Neanderthal days of the internets, none of the US citizen I chatted with could say a certain word without a moderator showing up. I had no problems whatsoever. :shrug: