Dear Jason,

A recent review of your site at indicates that the site's content does not comply with the EZpolls appropriate usage guidelines.

The member agreement for EZpolls members includes a well-defined provision as follows:

"The following types of sites may NOT participate in EZpolls: Sites linking to or containing nudity, pornographic material, or other adult content, sites encouraging illegal activity or racism, sites providing instructions or discussions about performing illegal activities, sites that promote or utilize software or services designed to deliver unsolicited email, or any other content EZpolls deems to be inappropriate."

Due to the site's content, your account for this service (username=Jason_R) has now been deactivated.

Your information will be permanently deleted on February 28, 2001. Before then, you may contact our support team at http://www.mycomputer.com/support/helpform.html with any questions or for clarification.

Note: You should be sure to remove any HTML code from your pages that access this account.

Please feel free to use MyComputer.com Network services for any other web pages you have. Thank you.

MyComputer.com Member Support
www.mycomputer.com/support/

I think I deserve an explanation as to *what* specific content on my site goes against the agreement you mention below.

The only thing I can think of that you might construe as being "pornographic" is the image for the "self gratification award", but of course the "nudity" has been covered up with other images. So, please tell me what content made you cancel my account.

Thank you.

Jason Roth

Jason,

Thanks for your message. I cannot find the URL for your site. If you will send it to me I will review your site. If nothing is found to be in violation I will reinstate your account.

Sincerely,

Dan Babbel
Customer Care Representative
MyComputer.com
http://www.mycomputer.com

Mr. Babbel,

Here is my URL:

http://savethehumans.com

Thank you,

Jason

Jason,

Thanks for your message. I went to your site and reviewed its content. I cannot reactivate your account due to what your site contains.

Sincerely,

Dan Babbel
Customer Care Representative
MyComputer.com
http://www.mycomputer.com

I understand that the MyComputer polls are free, which I appreciate. However, I asked you to name what it was that contradicted the agreement. In other words, what was the specific content that falls into the falling categories:

"containing nudity, pornographic material, or other adult content, sites encouraging illegal activity or racism, sites providing instructions or discussions about performing illegal activities, sites that promote or utilize software or services designed to deliver unsolicited email, or any other content EZpolls deems to be inappropriate."

-Jason
http://savethehumans.com

Hello,

Thanks for your message. Your main page contains the words fist-fuck, fuck and shit. There is also content that is deemed inappropriate such as Top Ten Ways to Seduce an Altar Boy .

Sincerely,

Dan Babbel
Customer Care Representative
MyComputer.com
http://www.mycomputer.com

Mr. Babbel,

You cite the words "fist-fuck", "fuck", and "shit" as examples of inappropriate content. By this, I assume you are referring to the clause in your agreement which disallows "other adult content". I must politely object. The words "fuck" and "shit" frequently make appearances in movies of less than an R rating. Of course, I'm not trying to imply that the Little Mermaid ever said anything about "those fucking fish", or "oh fuck, my fucking tail got stuck in this fucking rudder", or anything like that. I'm simply saying that 13-year-olds are children, after all, and are frequently exposed to the word "fuck". In other words, "fuck" and "shit" are not exclusively "adult content". I can remember using the words "fuck" and "shit" quite early on in my elementary school career. In fact, I can even remember *singing* the word "shit" on a number of occasions. (A lunchroom favorite was a rendition of the song "Silent Night", with our own creative twist on the phrase "Holy Night".)

As a note of clarification, the word "shit" is actually not featured on our homepage. You must have mistaken the acronym "S.H.I.T." for the word shit. S.H.I.T. is actually an acronym that stands for "Super Hydraulic Intake Technology".

Moving on, I must say that I strongly object to your implication that "fist-fuck" and "fuck" should be counted as two separate words. By your logic, "fucking moron", "fucking bastard", and even "fucking fuck" should all be considered as distinct, separate violations. In my opinion, the "fuck" in each of these cases should only be counted once, or at the very least, as multiple instances of the same word: "fuck". To elucidate, if someone robs a bank, and steals, say, $1000, would you advocate prosecuting them for 1000 separate bank robberies? I should hope not.

Now, with regards to the "Top Ten Ways to Seduce an Altar Boy" list, I am at a complete loss for words. I thought it was obvious that *that* piece, more than any other, would be especially appropriate for kids. Most adults would probably find it rather juvenile, while kids on the other hand, would probably get several chuckles out of it. (Especially altar boys.) Maybe when you described this as "inappropriate", you meant inappropriate for adults?

In conclusion, I implore you to reinstate my EZPolls account. This whole situation has given me a good idea for my site's next monthly poll. I'd really like to get the poll up soon, so please reactivate the poll as soon as possible.

Thank you very much.

Jason Roth
http://savethehumans.com

To be continued?

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