If someone is doing something illegal it's up to the government to regulate or ruin people's businesses and other than that, ultimately it is up to the customers whether or not someone can run a profitable business. Personally, I think that's the way it SHOULD be (aside from personally boycotting people who do unethical things or have business practices you don't agree with as a business-person yourself). You can also publicly post lists of people or sites you have issues with and inform surfers why you do not do business with them and suggest they don't support them either. Of course, that opens up a whole legal can of worms if you accuse them of something they didn't do which brings me back to letting the government take care of those things.

Why do I feel this way? Because the people in this industry who are for "self-policing" (and yes, they do exist and get quite a bit of attention on other boards and in industry magazines) are generally people I vehemently disagree with in terms of what they think we should crack down on: hiring known prostitutes, for example, requiring all talent be 21 or over, and also not doing anything the gov't or credit card companies are liable to deem obscene (for example, showing menstruation -- I know most of you you guys on this board don't need to worry about that, but I do). I want to run my business MY way, and I don't think it's visa's business or your business or anyone's business what I do or how I do it or who I do it with as long as I pay my taxes, deliver upon the promises I make customers, pay my bills and don't physically hurt anybody or knowingly shoot minors.

It's a dangerous thing when a marginalized and maligned group of people (pornographers, for example) start fighting with each other and figuratively lynching each other instead of coming together to fight the real enemy which at this time is THE GOVERNMENT and the people who support the war on porn with these ridiculous obscenity laws and moronic 2257 regulations which have never helped protect even one child and never will. It's not my fellow pornographers' business OR the governments' to tell me I'm allowed to put four fingers in my vagina on cam but not my thumb at the same time or to tell me that it's okay to have ten guys ejaculate on my face for a shoot but not to stick a cock in my pussy if I'm having my period or to tell me I should go to prison for a thought crime if I make believe my boyfriend is my daddy in a video and call it an incest role play.

It's one thing to be critical of each other and concerned about the implications of other people's business practices (showing unprotected sex, role-played rape, working with people who've scammed other people, etc.) and quite another to talk about POLICING those people and trying to destroy their ability to make a living and enjoy free speech. There are plenty of things people do in this industry that I think are totally fucked up, and plenty of people who think what *I* do is totally fucked up. I say it makes for great conversation, NOT a basis for regulating each other. In fact, I am almost more scared of the vocal and conservative people in this industry than I am the feds.