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Violet Blue at Gnomedex

by Viviane on 09/04/2024

in community, sex

Violet Blue spoke at what has turned out to be the last Gnomedex. She gave a talk on the (many) attempts to build communities to discuss sex and sexuality, and how they’ve faltered over the years (communities closed or sold) or been attacked by invoking a service’s terms of service (TOS), the most recent being the Our Porn, Our Selves Facebook page.

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St. Louis Blogger “The Beautiful Kind” Fired for Writing About Sex (DailyRFT.com)

by Viviane on 05/03/2024

in sexbloggers

Live by social media, die by social media. Last week her blog cost TBK her job.

Where once The Beautiful Kind reposed, resplendent in lacy lingerie, chronicling the ins and outs of her polyamorous escapades, her blog now consists of a note from her “web guru” stating that “the site will remain closed until further notice” and implying that the virtual drapes have been drawn because the author’s virtual fig leaf of anonymity had been stripped away.

As it turned out, said outing had gotten her fired. When she arrived at work last Tuesday, April 27, TBK tells RFT, she was terminated on the spot.

The cause: “a Twitter glitch” that came to light when her boss, at the suggestion of top management, performed Google searches seeking information about employees.

“My boss said that they couldn’t be associated with anyone who was posting graphic images and erotica, and they wanted me to pretend that I never even was there; they want nothing to do with me, they want to act like it never happened,” recounts TBK, who had been in the position about a month.

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TBK has posted on Alway’s Aroused Girl’s blog: A Very Personal Message from The Beautiful Kind. You can also donate here.

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Facebook and Syphilis: What You Need to Know (My Sex Professor)

by Viviane on 03/24/2024

in social media

Ever since the early days of the Internet, various web sites have become easy scape goats for sex-negative claims, such as scary stories about how people meet sex partners through the Internet and then bad things happen. However, rarely is the good of the Internet mentioned in this regard.

Do web sites, especially social networking web sites and dating web sites and casual sex sites, make it easier for people to find each other for romantic and/or sexual encounters? Of course they do. And this is often a positive thing for those involved and does not always result in STI transmission.

What people often overlook is that these same sites can also make it easier for public health professionals to track a burgeoning epidemic and stop it before it gets out of hand. Before the Internet, if you were limited to meeting people at bars, you may have known very little about them if you chose to have a casual sexual encounter with them. Maybe you didn’t even know their first or last name or how to get in touch with them.

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Robin Sax: Watch What You Say… Online (HuffPo)

by Viviane on 06/18/2024

in social media

As a prosecutor, the first thing I do when I get a case is to Google the victim, the suspect, and all the material witnesses. I run them all through Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, You Tube and see what I might get. I also do a “Google image search” and see what pops up. Sometimes there’s nothing, but other times I get the goods– pictures, status updates, and better yet, blogs and articles they’ve written.

How fantastic is that? A blog written by the suspect about his mind set, plans, or ideas….hmmm….no Fifth Amendment problems here. And it’sa beautiful statement in his own words. It’s all there for the taking and I take it and shove it right down his throat in court.

And let me tell you, I am not alone. I anticipate that the lawyer on the other side will do the same thing, so I prepare my witnesses and victims for it, just as I’m now preparing you. So all you potential litigants, parties to lawsuits, plaintiffs, defendants, victims, and suspects….don’t say I didn’t tell you. You, too, are being watched, searched, Googled and twittered. And that means you, too, counsel!

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AddThis.com Widget Privacy Warning

by Viviane on 10/09/2025

in privacy, security

button1 bm AddThis.com Widget Privacy Warning

I used to use the AddThis bookmarking widget, because it let users add content to many different services and didn’t look too cluttered.

My friend JC forwarded me an email from the WWWAC list. Addthis was bought by ClearSpring last month. Starting yesterday today, they are now slipping a ClearSpring Flash Tracker Object into all your pages. Like all flash trackers, these use cookie-busting LSOs to track users across all websites that utilize AddThis or ClearSpring technologies:

These cookies are not visible within user’s normal privacy options windows in their browsers and can not be cleared by using the browser’s Clear Private Data (Firefox) and similar privacy options. These cookies also work across all browsers on the machine as Flash stores these LSOs in a single location.

There’s more info at JohnHaller.com. He’s the author of the Portable Firefox program.

I’ve removed the widget from my blog and Lolita Wolf‘s blog, and suggest you to do the same.

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