Friday, July 21, 2006
Current mood: beaten down

[this post includes replies that were received via MySpace]

Some folks may have noticed that BedroomBondage is no longer linking to this blog! Nor linking to my bondage forum. Nor linking to my yahoo group. “Hey,” the astute observer says, “Bedroom Bondage isn’t linked to anywhere! And most of the public webpages are missing! Hmm!”

My ex-merchant bank made an offer I couldn’t refuse. They said if I cleaned up my site to their satisfaction, they would take me (& my poor innocent-bystander husband) off the Fraud list, and start rebilling my members again.

This is fairly agonizing for me, but at the moment, I don’t have a choice. They won’t take me off the List unless I come back to them, and my site has to be super-duper-clean for them to reactivate my account. Not only do I need to be off that list, but so does my partner.

I’m boned. (nod to Bender of Futurama)

So, I’ve already “cleaned up” the public area of the site, and by Sunday night, the member area will be partially expurgated as well. On Monday the bank will be calling to see if I’ve performed to their liking.

Once my record is cleared, I’m still gonna search overseas for some other bank. I want my real website back! Waaaaah! :(

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came

–Lorelei

http://www.bedroombondage.com

8:33 PM - 12 Comments - 10 Kudos

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John

Wow that is such bs with what they are doing to you. It does seem like you may have found a loop hole though with making them happy with their stupid ideas of what we all want while you try to find something overseas. I am pretty sure once you get a better backer than these jabroonis things will go back to normal. Wea re all rooting for you and good luck, we know that you can do it and find a way around these morons.

Posted by John on Saturday, July 22, 2006 at 4:47 AM

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Richard

I’m sorry to hear that you’ve had to do this to keep your site open. I hope you find a more viable billing company because this doesn’t come across as the kind of bank that you want to continue doing business with.

What can the average person do to fight the growing censorship that we’re under? Sadly, it’s a topic that doesn’t interest the media. The things that are happening are barely being noted. The end result is that more people are debating whether Britney is a good mom than issues like this.

We can write out Senate and Congress representatives, but that’s something few people ever do even when they’re upset over the state of the country. Jay Leno’s monologues, when the FBI unveiled they were going after porn, were probably more effective than what most of us can accomplish. Other talk shows were afraid to touch the issue.

It looks as if HR 4472 is going to become law.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-4472
This is a bill which has riders attached to it that have nothing to do with child protection. One of the more ridiculous provisions requires new, unreasonable paperwork requirements for tracking every single image on adult websites. When the attorney general told law enforcement agencies, that one of his high priority tasks would be to enforce these new provisions and perform audits of adult producers, these agencies balked. They would have to divert resources, from units needed to go after sexual predators of children, to check paperwork of adult producers to see if they had IDs (mostly driver’s licenses) of all the models/performers they worked with. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the kind of criminals, sexually exploiting children, aren’t checking to see if the kids they’re abusing have driver’s licenses. It’s not as if most of our politicians are geniuses.

Posted by Richard on Saturday, July 22, 2006 at 5:36 AM

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Duct Tape Messiah

Bugger all,

‘Tis a long dark day indeed when the merchants can tell their customers how to behave and not the other way around. Sorry to hear about all this trouble, Lorelei.

Posted by Duct Tape Messiah on Saturday, July 22, 2006 at 6:59 AM

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Chuck

Dear Lorelei, I’m very sorry to hear that the “thought police” have hassled you again. I get a similar problem in Memphis: the schmucks have decided they can tell adults what to look at or read. I sincerely hope you find a MUCH better merchant bank. Regards and Respect, Chuck Foley.

Posted by Chuck on Saturday, July 22, 2006 at 7:23 AM

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Connie

You can sure say that again, it is getting to be that we no longer have any rights, and please don’t take this the wrong way, but we have to get Bush and that crowd out of Washington DC and put a better person in who will stand up for all of our rights.

Posted by Connie on Sunday, August 13, 2006 at 1:04 AM

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ROBOTHIPSTER

“Fraud list?” I have been a member of your site a couple of times .. you never frauded me? What a bunch of a-holes! Hell, the last 6 years have been repression city! Getting worse and worse.

Mark

Posted by ROBOTHIPSTER on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 at 10:08 AM

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Doc - Artist & Writer

This is horrific…. I agree with previous posts; whatever you guys want to organize against bullshit like this, put me on the list and let me know.

Posted by Doc - Artist & Writer on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 at 11:32 AM

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Kris Johnson

Fuck ‘em. Do what you have to do in the short run, but don’t sacrifice what you really want to be.

Mad respect for looking out for your husband in the deal. You’re a stand up person.

Now straighten this out so we can all prove stand up people that are into kinky shit can win too.

Yours in the fight…

Kris

Posted by Kris Johnson on Sunday, July 30, 2006 at 11:39 PM

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Phreestyle

I thought the USA was supposed to be the land of the free. What the hell is happening when bankers become the watchdog of morality? What training do they undertake in ethics and morality that allows them to make judgements about what intelligent thinking humnan beings should or should not see?
This situation strikes me as a very slippery, and very dangerous, slope and a futher erosion of personal freedoms.
Oh well take your cash to Europe and deny these wankers (oops sorry, bankers) the use of your money.

Posted by Phreestyle on Friday, August 11, 2006 at 8:38 PM