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Subject: [afalert] Yahoo! Still Headquarters For Child Porn & Obscenity
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 17:16:27 -0500

AFA Action Alert
American Family Association
Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, President
Tim Wildmon, Vice President
Buddy Smith, Editor
P.O. Drawer 2440
Tupelo, MS 38803
Phone (662) 844-5036
Fax (662) 842-7798
URL: http://www.afa.net

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YAHOO! STILL HEADQUARTERS FOR CHILD PORN & OBSCENITY
Enterprise Rent-A-Car Latest to Bolt from KingdomBuy.com

[ Online Format: http://www.afa.net/activism/aa061901.asp ]
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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.

www.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
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,44619,00.html

Yahoo! Still Headquarters For Child Porn & Obscenity
http://www.afa.net/pr_061801.asp

Ashcroft's Hard Line on Hardcore
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,44398,00.html

Flap Continues Over Yahoo! Porn, Campaign Against Online Shopping Mall
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/afa/192001b.asp

Enterprise Rent-A-Car leaves KingdomBuy
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23294

ACTION NEEDED

Contact 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
Email: investor_relations@yahoo-inc.com
mailto:investor_relations@yahoo-inc.com

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
Email: twools@erac.com
mailto:twools@erac.com
URL: http://www.enterprise.com/

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AFA Action Alert
American Family Association
Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, President
Tim Wildmon, Vice President
Buddy Smith, Editor
P.O. Drawer 2440
Tupelo, MS 38803
Phone (662) 844-5036
Fax (662) 842-7798
URL: http://www.afa.net

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August 7, 2001

YAHOO! FACILITATES PROSTITUTION THROUGHOUT U.S. AND WORLD

[ Online Format: http://www.afa.net/activism/aa080301.asp ]
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"Yahoo! facilitates prostitution throughout the U.S. and many other
countries. Its involvement is very significant and potentially illegal,"
said Patrick Trueman of American Family Association.

Yahoo! accepts advertisements from prostitutes and prostitution
enterprises in their Classified and Yellow Pages sections allowing
potential customers to search by city and state. Also, there are numerous
Yahoo! Clubs (both U.S. and foreign) that directly solicit customers and
offer photos of the prostitutes, many engaged in various sex acts.
Information on how to contact the prostitutes is provided. Yahoo! also
provides a message exchange service on the front page of these Clubs where
potential clients may communicate with the prostitutes. In the Yahoo!
GeoCities and Profiles sites, many prostitutes and prostitution
enterprises display sexually explicit photos along with phone and e-mail
contact information and hourly and nightly charges for the prostitutes.

"Yahoo!'s facilitation of prostitution may violate federal law which
prohibits aiding and abetting interstate or foreign commerce for the
purpose of prostitution," Trueman said. "All of the prostitution
information is on Yahoo!'s own servers and is available to anyone,
including children. It is impossible to believe that Yahoo! is ignorant of
this or its potential violations of federal law. Yahoo! should stop its
involvement with the despicable and illegal trade of prostitution."

Patrick Trueman 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.

ACTION NEEDED

"Yahoo! is not a safe place for children and families and AFA urges all
Internet users to avoid the site," Trueman said. In addition, The American
Family Association has launched a nationwide PETITION DRIVE -
http://www.afa.net/yahoo/petition.asp - to call upon Yahoo!, Inc. and its
sponsors to get out of the pornography business. Increasing at an alarming
rate are the nauseating, heart-breaking stories of children and adults
devastated as a result of the Internet's electronically-delivered
pornography. Yahoo!, Inc. and its advertisers need to hear from us today.
We can't sit by and simply wish Yahoo! would clean up its act!

Together, we can make a difference - but we need your help! SIGN THE
PETITION today, urging Chairman Terry Semel of Yahoo! and its sponsors to
get out of the porn business by pointing your browser to The PETITION -
http://www.afa.net/yahoo/petition.asp

For those who have already signed the petition - please FORWARD THE
PETITION today to at least 10 friends and urge them to do likewise. Click
on - Email This Page To A Friend - about one half way down the petition to
forward it to friends and family.

Thank you!

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