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In February 2006, AOL announced that it would accept payment for incoming emails. For these certified emails, it would skip its usual anti-spam filters and guarantee delivery for cash. Our coalition believes that the free passage of email between Internet users is a vital part of what makes the Internet work. When ISPs demand a cut of "pay-to-send" email, they're raising tollbooths on the open Net, interfering with the passage of data by demanding protection money at the gates of their customers' computers


From: all@dearaol.com
To: postmaster@aol.com
Date: Tue Feb 28 13:00:00 EST 2006
Subject: An Open Letter To America Online
We wish to express our serious concern with AOL's adoption of Goodmail's CertifiedEmail, which is a threat to the free and open Internet.

This system would create a two-tiered Internet in which affluent mass emailers could pay AOL a fee that amounts to an "email tax" for every email sent, in return for a guarantee that such messages would bypass spam filters and go directly to AOL members' inboxes. Those who did not pay the "email tax" would increasingly be left behind with unreliable service. Your customers expect that your first obligation is to deliver all of their wanted mail, and this plan is a step away from that obligation.

AOL's "email tax" is the first step down a slippery slope that will harm the Internet itself. The Internet is a revolutionary force for free speech, civic organizing, and economic innovation precisely because it is open and accessible to all Internet users equally. On a free and open Internet, small ideas can become big ideas overnight. As Internet advocacy groups, charities, non-profits, businesses, civic organizing groups, and email experts, we ask you to reconsider your pay-to-send proposal and to keep the Internet free.

A pay-to-send system won't help the fight against spam - in fact, this plan assumes that spam will continue and that mass mailers will be willing to pay to have their emails bypass spam filters. And non-paying spammers will not reduce the amount of mail they throw at your filters simply because others pay to evade them.

Perversely, the new two-tiered system AOL proposes would actually reward AOL financially for failing to maintain its email service. The chief advantage of paying to send CertifiedEmail is that it can bypass AOL's spam filters. Non-paying customers are being asked to trust that after paid mail goes into effect, AOL will properly maintain its spam filters so only unwanted mail gets thrown away.

But the economic incentives point the other way: The moment AOL switches to a two-tiered Internet where giant emailers pay for preferential service, AOL will face a simple business choice: spend money to keep regular spam filters up-to-date, or make money by neglecting their spam filters and pushing more senders to pay for guaranteed delivery. Poor delivery of mail turns from being a problem that AOL has every incentive to fix to something that could actually make them money if the company ignores it.

The bottom-line is that charging an "email tax" actually gives AOL a financial incentive to degrade email for non-paying senders. This would disrupt the communications of millions who cannot afford to pay your fees-including the non-profits, civic organizations, charities, small businesses, and community mailing lists that have arisen for every topic under the sun and that make email so vital to your subscribers.

And what if other Internet service providers retaliate and start demanding their own ransoms to accept mail from your millions of users? Your company works hard to simplify the Internet. Don't start a surcharge war that will complicate it with tiered services and dozens of middleman fees for every simple act of communication.

We have always been happy working together with you to fight spam and phishing. We have a common enemy in spammers. We are happy to work together to develop open approaches that attack the problem of spam and phishing. But a pay-to-send "certified" system does not help to fight spam. It only serves to make the Internet less free for everyone. We stand together in asking you to reconsider your decision to use CertifiedEmail.

Respectfully,

Badon presses for HIV tests in prisons

Badon presses for HIV tests in prisons
He vows to work to cut proposal's cost
Friday, September 15, 2006
By Ed Anderson
Capital bureau
BATON ROUGE -- Louisiana prison officials should be required to test all 38,000 state inmates in custody and the 15,000 who pass through the system each year for AIDS, HIV and hepatitis, Rep. Austin Badon, D-New Orleans, said Thursday.


Badon told a meeting of the House Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice that he will file a bill for the April legislative session to make that happen.

He said the measure will start out as a carbon copy of House Bill 1166, which he filed for this year's session but did not push. He asked the committee to study the issue for debate at the session that starts April 30.

The Legislative Fiscal Office, the arm of the Legislature that analyzes the costs of proposed laws, said the cost of Badon's previous bill was about $14 million for the first year the testing and treatment program is in effect and $17 million the second year.

After that, the costs would level off to about $11.2 million a year, according to analyst Kristy Freeman.

Badon said the bill will contain language requiring prison officials to segregate inmates who test positive for the diseases, and would give prison officials the right to use "reasonable force in cases where an individual refuses to submit to (the) testing required."

"Public health issues far outweigh the privacy issues" of the individual inmates, Badon said. "These people have given up their rights (while in prison)."

One of the first things a male inmate does when released is return to his wife or girlfriend for, in many cases unprotected sexual activity, putting innocent people at risk, Badon said.

"It is a no-brainer to do what we can," he said.

He will work with Department of Public Safety and Corrections Secretary Richard Stalder and other state officials to reduce the costs of the testing and treatment, Badon said.

"The only way we can get our arms around AIDS cases is to reduce the number of new cases" and Badon's proposal takes a step in that direction, Dr. Kevin Stephens, director of the New Orleans Health Department, told the panel.

The state should have as its goal reducing the number of new HIV cases among inmates by 50 percent in five years, Stephens said.

Stalder told the committee that he can test all inmates if the Legislature approves enough money.

For Badon's previous bill, Freeman estimated that HIV and hepatitis tests cost about $40 each and treatment for various forms of hepatitis vary from $7,000 to $13,000 a year per case. HIV treatment costs run about $21,000 annually per case.

Stalder said of the 20,000 inmates in state-run prisons, 520 have been diagnosed with HIV and 390 are in treatment now.

He said the others may not want to be treated or the medicines prescribed may cause other health problems.

Stalder said there are about 2,000 inmates diagnosed with hepatitis C, but the state has financed treatment for only 55. He said many of the cases are not far enough along to be treated or "do not fit the treatment profile," including those who voluntarily agree not to take treatments or decline treatment because of the virulent drugs involved in addressing the illness.

Others, he said, will be out of jail in time to have nonprison doctors treat them.

"We cannot force treatment . . . if an individual elects not to participate" in the program, Stalder said. "The treatment for HIV and hepatitis C is very difficult. You have to be highly motivated to participate in these treatment regimens."

Stalder said his agency and the Department of Health and Hospital's Office of Public Health are looking for federal dollars to finance programs to prevent the spread of HIV, AIDS and hepatitis among inmates released by supplying them with condoms and education on ways to prevent the spread of the diseases and ways to treat them.

"Education is the key," Stalder said.

Badon said that approach won't work since most inmates released are undereducated and are used to a criminal lifestyle. As a result, mandatory testing is needed to stop the spread of the diseases, he said.

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Ed Anderson can be reached at eanderson@timespicayune.com or (225) 342-5810

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Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
November 09, 2004


Boo! We’re gay!
By Bruce Vilanch
From The Advocate, November 09, 2004

This Halloween I’m going as Condoleezza Rice. She’s the scariest thing I can think of. I mean, here she is, a concert pianist right up there at the Miss America level, working for that cowpoke in the nest of vipers they used to call the White House. My wish for Condi is that after she is routed from Washington, someone gives her a talk show and puts it opposite Oprah. That ought to finish her off for all time. She’d have to give away more than a Pontiac to make me pay attention to her. Nevertheless, she is my ghoul of choice this year.

You’ll have to look hard for the Condoleezzas at this year’s big Halloween parades. Even the Log Cabin Republicans don’t want to dress up as Condoleezza. Of course, they don’t dress up. Oh, they may go from a two-button Brooks Brothers to a three-button model, but they never can be counted on to spring for anything with too much oomph in it. My theory is that as gay Republicans, they spend most of their time beating themselves up in the parking lot, and there are just so many hours in a day.

They actually got some mainstream press this year when they refused to endorse Shrub for reelection, which most gay people greeted with a hearty “Welcome back to our planet, girls.” Even so, they cannot be counted on for Halloween.

We’re talking about perhaps the biggest gay holiday of the year—bigger than gay pride, because even self-conscious straight people can celebrate Halloween with us without fear. Along with Mardi Gras, Halloween is a time when even the straightest individual can be gay for a night, dancing and prancing dressed up as some other gender or species. But Mardi Gras, with its emphasis on debauchery and hurling chunks onto the sidewalk outside every bar, has a far more sinister bent than good old Halloween, with its ghosts and goblins and big-boobed bimbo vampires like Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.

Although not gay herself, Cassandra Peterson, the actress who created Elvira, is a living testament to her own smart marketing of something quintessentially gay. Peterson has managed to take her heavily mascaraed alter ego from a very gay, campy local Los Angeles TV show, where she made pricelessly bitchy comments while screening old horror movies, to being the symbol of Halloween slapped on the side of 12-packs of beer every October. Of course, the giant jugs help.

But Halloween was the gay national holiday long before Elvira. Some years ago in Chicago there was a big drag ball the Saturday before Halloween. It was on that Saturday because if October 31 fell on a weeknight, the chances for real revelry were somewhat diminished, so we were guaranteed at least one October night to howl. It was called the Bitches’ Christmas, which at the time had a double-edged meaning. It was our holiday, a trivial day made important to us because they would never let us celebrate their holiday. Families weren’t quite so loving and inclusive to their gay children back then. There was no PFLAG, if you catch my drift.

Now, of course, everybody celebrates everything, and Halloween has become such a big business that it actually gets in the way of Christmas—which, if Madison Avenue had its way, would start being celebrated the Tuesday after Labor Day. It’s no secret why gay people love Halloween. Sure, straight people like it too. But deep down, we know: Halloween is for gay people.

Halloween was the one night of the year when it was all right to wear a mask—a fun mask, as opposed to that protective mask most of us wore every day of our lives. On Halloween everybody was wearing masks. That free, crazy, anything-goes spirit that puritan America kept chained in the basement was allowed to breathe free, if only for one night. It was intoxicating.

It’s funny to remember how far straight people would go to put together a look for Halloween, even back when. That’s something most gay people had to do every single day for as long as they lived. For one night a year, our misery had company.

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Brent Castillo: Don't Use Religion as Justification for Hate

The Wichita Eagle

http://www.topix.net/content/kri/2003987238259187411740769781743578324528

September 13, 2006

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

President Bush raised some eyebrows last month when he spoke of fighting 'Islamic fascism.' Some Muslims were upset, including Parvez Ahmed, chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, who said in an open letter to the president that the term 'contributes to a rising level of hostility to Islam and the American-Muslim community.'

In his Sept. 11 address, Bush toned down his description to 'perverted vision of Islam.'

I'm not a Muslim, but to me, either description seems appropriate.

The term 'fascism' was originally used by Italy's dictator, Benito Mussolini, in the 1930s and '40s, and exalted the state and race above the individual. In more recent usage, 'fascism' refers to autocratic or dictatorial control. When you combine the current usage with the fact that terrorists have justified their actions through their faith in Islam, then 'Islamic fascism' seems reasonable.

Islamic leaders such as Ahmed are rightly concerned about hostility, but his complaintswould carry more weight if the worldwide Muslim communityloudly condemned acts of terrorism and the fringe theology that condones them.

A good case study, on a much smaller scale, of how radical religion should be treated can be found here in Kansas. Fred Phelps, the Christian minister from Topeka, spews his hatred of homosexuals and our country wherever he can and to whomever he pleases. But he is roundly condemned by most Christians. Even people who agree with him in principle about the immorality of homosexuality are quick to criticize his methodology and rigid theology.

The Muslim community in Wichita has strongly condemned terrorism and the perversion of Islam. But the worldwide community needs to make a concerted, unified effort to marginalize and shrink the radical elements within its faith. Until then, the complaints about using the fascist label likely won't carry much weight with many non-Muslims.

Religion should be used to make a positive change in people. I chose Christianity because I believe its teachings are true. Millions of others have chosen Islam for the same reason. We may disagree, but we shouldn't use our faith as a justification to hate or hurt others.

Author Jonathan Swift made a wise point when he acknowledged a potential shortcoming of faith:

'We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.'

Let's not use religion as a justification for hate. And let's not stand by as others pervert faith, using hatred for their own gain.

ACLU challenges Ohio's anti-Phelps law as too broad

 

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by Anthony Glassman

Cleveland--The ACLU of Ohio is challenging a new state law intended to keep a notorious anti-gay preacher from picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq.

The legislature passed the Rest in Peace Act last spring. The ACLU says the measure is overly broad and filed suit against it on August 24, shortly after it took effect.

The act was a reaction to protests by Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, an unaffiliated congregation with a history of virulently anti-gay rhetoric.

Phelps’ church, which is mostly his extended family, has traveled the country since the early 1990s, protesting funerals of people who died of AIDS and hate crime victims like Matthew Shepard. They wave signs reading “God hates fags” and “Thank God for 9/11.”

In the past year, the group has taken to picketing the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq, promoting Phelps’ line that God is punishing soldiers because the United States shelters homosexuals and is filled with “fag enablers.”

The church’s protests led to a federal law barring demonstrations at federal cemeteries, and states across the country have passed similar measures.

Ohio’s law bans protests during funerals and an hour before or afterward, creating a 300-foot protest-free zone around the funeral home, cemetery and funeral procession.

“The ban is far too broad,” said ACLU of Ohio legal director Jeffrey Gamso. “The time restraints, free speech ‘bubble’ and the fact that it will move with the funeral procession will effectively prohibit protesting for large amounts of time in many communities around Ohio.”

“If a political group wanted to have a demonstration on Main Street and a funeral procession was driving by, they would not be permitted to continue, even if the protest has nothing to do with the funeral,” he said. “That is clearly too strict and would severely limit free speech.”

Similar laws have been challenged in other states, including Kentucky, though none of those challenges have yet been decided.

ACLU of Ohio Executive Director Chris Link brought up the example of striking workers picketing outside their place of employment. She said that, as the law stands, if a funeral procession drove by, the workers would have to stop.

The Westboro demonstrators have spurred another backlash: the Patriot Guard Riders, a group of 53,000 people nationwide who attend military funerals to show their respect and, if need be, block protesters from view.

Patriot Guard Riders were present at the funeral earlier this year of Mark Todd Shinkle, the president of the Buckeye Region American Veterans for Equal Rights.

“We do it to respect and honor the soldier and support the family,” Bob “Tater” Smith, a Sandusky veteran, told the Toledo Blade of the Patriot Guard Riders’ mission. The group has 1,600 members in Ohio.

Smith believes the Rest in Peace Act is unnecessary and will be more trouble than it’s worth.

“They threaten more than they show up,” he said of Westboro Baptist Church. “If you ignore them, they just go away. Our way costs a lot less for the taxpayers.”