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AFA ActivismAction Alert - June 19, 2001Yahoo! Still Headquarters For Child Porn & ObscenityEnterprise Rent-A-Car Latest to Bolt from KingdomBuy.com
Yahoo! continues to allow child pornography and obscenity to be posted on its servers, according to Patrick A. Trueman, of the American Family Association. Two months ago Yahoo! announced it would remove such material. “A search of Yahoo!’s Clubs and GeoCities sites, which are available to anyone including children, indicates that a seemingly endless number of the sites contain pornography, depicting children in a variety of sexual poses and involved in sex acts, he said. Examples include the “Pic Club of Preteens,” the “Preteen Pics up the Wazoo” Club. Links are provided on these sites to other areas on Yahoo! and elsewhere on the Internet where child pornography may be found. One Yahoo! Club offers the “Complete Lolita Hookers Guide.” Yahoo! also continues to allow hundreds of Clubs and GeoCities sites that offer obscene pornography to viewers, including sexually explicit depictions of violent rape, torture, group sex, urination, scatology, and sadomasochistic acts. Some of the club names include the “Rape Photos,” Club with pictures of women being raped, the “Women In Extreme Distress” Club, which includes a picture of a woman captioned “raped and tortured for three days,” and the “Young Virgin Slave Market,” Club depicting bondage and torture. “Though Yahoo! seems to have removed many Clubs and GeoCities sites with potentially illegal material and has discontinued sales of hardcore pornographic videos, the company is still a magnet for pedophiles and those seeking all varieties of hardcore pornography,” Trueman said. On April 12, 2000 Trueman, wrote Attorney General Ashcroft to investigate Yahoo! for federal child pornography and obscenity violations. Trueman continues to urge an investigation. “Yahoo! should not be allowed to profit from the sexual exploitation of children and women,” Trueman said. He is AFA’s director of governmental affairs, and was chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, from 1988 to 1992. In early April, the American Family Association urged Attorney General John Ashcroft to investigate Internet giant Yahoo! for federal child pornography and obscenity violations. Within days, an organized group of Yahoo! porn club members -- apparently in reaction to Yahoo!'s decision to close access to many of its porn clubs -- began an e-mail campaign against KingdomBuy.com, an Internet-based Christian shopping mall that allows consumers to direct a percentage of their purchases to local churches and Christian ministries. The porn club campaign targeted the shopping mall because of its affiliation with the American Family Association. Within days after the start of the Yahoo! users' e-mail campaign, retailers such as Nordstrom and J.C. Penney began dropping their association with KingdomBuy.com. Neither Nordstrom nor J.C. Penney cite the campaign by the porn club members as their reason for leaving KingdomBuy.com, instead saying the decision was for "business reasons." Some retailers -- most notably, WalMart.com, Avon, and FTD.com -- also left the program, but returned shortly thereafter. Now, Enterprise Rent-A-Car has become the latest company to drop its affiliation with KingdomBuy.com. WorldNetDaily quotes the director of KingdomBuy.com, Gary Sutton, who says Enterprise was concerned about KingdomBuy.com's affiliation with AbidingTruth.com, a group that opposes the cultural normalization of the homosexual lifestyle. In an e-mail to KingdomBuy.com yesterday, Travis Wools of Enterprise accused the shopping mall of promoting "negative and exclusionary ideas and beliefs toward particular group(s)." Wools told WorldNetDaily that the e-mail was intended for another organization and had been sent to Sutton by mistake. Sutton disputes that claim, saying that during a telephone conversation Wools indicated a customer had complained about the shopping mall's affiliation with AbidingTruth.com. Sutton says Wools accused AbidingTruth.com of being an "anti-gay" website. "Using Mr. Wools' definition of anti-gay would mean that most Christian organizations are anti-gay, since most believe that the homosexual lifestyle is a violation of Biblical guidelines for human behavior," Sutton told WorldNetDaily. Nevertheless, Sutton says AbidingTruth.com -- while registered with KingdomBuy.com -- is not an affiliate and has not received any money from his organization. AbidingTruth.com is the website for Abiding Truth Ministries, based in Citrus Heights, California. The ministry operates the Pro-Family Law Center, the nation's only legal entity devoted exclusively to opposing the homosexual movement. Scott Lively, an attorney and president of Abiding Truth Ministries, began serving as the California state director for AFA in early April. Related Articles: Yahoo in Porn Foe's Sights Yahoo! Still Headquarters For Child Porn & Obscenity Ashcroft's Hard Line on Hardcore Flap Continues Over Yahoo! Porn, Campaign Against Online Shopping Mall Enterprise Rent-A-Car leaves KingdomBuy ACTION NEEDEDContact Yahoo!, Inc. and politely express your outrage that they are still allowing the posting, sharing and distributing of child porn and obscenity on their servers. Advise that you are hoping Attorney General Ashcroft will prosecute them if they remain unwilling to remove the illegal materials. If you have a Yahoo account, tell them that you plan on canceling and let them know why.Yahoo, Inc. Terry Semel, CEO 3420 Central Expressway Santa Clara, CA 95051 Phone: (408) 731-3300 [ext.0 and ask for Mr. Semel] Fax: (408) 731-3510 Contact Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Inc. and politely tell them to stop the Christian bashing. Advise Mr. Wools that you are aware of why Enterprise dropped KingdomBuy.com as well as his double-speak on the matter. Urge Mr. Wools to restore the Enterprise / KingdomBuy relationship or forfeit your future business and that of your family and friends. Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Inc. Travis Wools, Interactive Promotions 600 Corporate Park Dr. St. Louis, MO 63105 Phone: (314) 512-3522 Fax: (314) 512-5522 URL
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