I was almost kidnapped and molested from one of them. We argued that AOL was selling the right to communicate and make your OWN content (more like a telephone company.) After these many years, the latter has become the norm for the Internet, and closed-access, heavily moderated services like Prodigy, AOL (in its old form) and CompuServe thankfully are no more. Many of the GLCF members.particularly a guy named Kevin or BootmanLA, bashed us and me personally (I had harmed the gay community by getting our AOL account cancelled for standing up for the gay community) and supported AOL's right to censor gay people because they "had the right to regulate their content, just like a newspaper." I needed to learn to accept authority and follow rules. When we tried to point out AOL's double standard on their message boards, our accounts were terminated. The software would block creation of a chat room "Gay teen chat" but you COULD create a room called "Teen fag bashers." AOL also regularly deleted profiles containing "sexually oriented" content such as "gay white male" while straight men were allowed to list in THEIR profiles how they were "well endowed" and how skillfully they could please women with their tongues, etc. We received complaints about how AOL was very phobic about not allowing chat areas for gay teens and trans-people. I was president of the Fort Worth ACLU in 1996-98 and also active in the local Gay Alliance.
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