Okay, Google, I can deal with a warning page for the sake of "the children"...but when I do click on the "I am at least 18 years old" button, the page I seek never loads! Except sometimes--rarely--if I click a buncha-muncha times! I'm not even looking for porn; I'm a gay adult activist seeking to read and post on issues regarding homosexual politics. (I don't quite know when Google introduced their adult warning page, but I only started running into it about a month ago.)

(Note: see for yourself what I mean. Click on the Google warning above and just try to access newsgroup "alt.homosexual". You're an adult, aintcha? But Google treats you like an helpless child who needs corporate nannies to protect you from the big bad wolves...some of whom are (gasp) queers!)

Unfortunately, these updated COPPA laws blithely censor non-pornograhic/erotic sites as well, including gay activist and news pages. This is obviously intentional, like the phony War on Drugs used to persecute victimless crimes and other innocents. In the case of COPPA, they are censoring more and more gay-friendly web sites, forums, and chat rooms. In these NeoCon times, "gay" words (like "homosexual", "bisexual", "lesbian", "LGBT" and of course "gay") are part of COPPA's censorship, because right-wingers willfully choose to define these words as intrinsically pornographic.

This is nothing less than relegating queers to 2nd-class citizenship, well on the way to classifying homosexuals "sub-human"...which opens the door to even greater persecution. Such as labeling us "enemies of the state", segregating us into ghettos, prisons and concentration camps.

And it looks like Google is participating in this Fascist agenda, in such a way as to come off as "coincidental" and "unintended". Nonetheless, I have experienced far more inaccessibility to various gay-relevant Usenet articles recently...because no matter how many times I click the censorship button: I cannot load the page I seek!

The fact that my URL, www.gay-bible.org, has "gay" in it, makes my web site a highly visible target. Not to mention all my myriad articles there, and on Usenet, dedicated to one issue alone: homosexual civil rights.

Guilty till proven innocent: what a way to go! Homosexuals: perverts by default (unless we somehow, as a collective worldwide entity) "prove" our "innocence"...which by their definition of "practicing homosexual" is impossible. As long as religious freedom (read "hate speech") is protected in such a horribly biased manner in this nation, we shall never gain our equal rights via the usual political and legal systems. We must be a lot more pro-active-- aggressive even--via demonstrations on the streets, in cyberspace, and in as many key "hot-button" places and news centers as possible. And we must do so en masse, for it to work.

Just think of Rosa Parks sitting in the front of the bus, and brave citizens of color sitting at white-only luncheon counters. We need similar strategies--well-orchestr ated in many areas of the country, at specially strategic times--in order to make any more progress towards equality.

For the time is right to take action. We shall soon see the official eradication of any and all sexual-minority websites, newsgroups, lists and message boards across the entire breadth of cyberspace. (Right now, the growing censorship of all gay-relevant sites is being accomplished indirectly, but most effectively, via these Internet-blocking programs...under the usual hysteria of "what about the children".) And how easy it is for any homophobe to report any queer site to these blockers...considering the ubiquitous level of homophobia still rampant across all aspects of our society.

Along with that will come yet another official condemnation, wherein the White House declares homosexuals an imminent threat to Homeland Security and Amerikan "Fambly Valyooz". They'll proclaim: "If gay presence on the Internet is such a danger to our children, why, how much more danger they are in our public spaces!"

We will then see officially supported censorship of gay people in many public arenas, popping up all over the place. We will see an upwelling of mass hatred against gays, which has been surreptitiously planned all along by the Religious Reich...in order to create a (false) common internal enemy, that the public may be duped and led down the road to totalitarianism.

This is what I foresee...whether through the gift of precognition, or just plain sensitivity to social trends after years of reading gay-related news articles from many sources, participating in gay newsgroups, and being heavily involved as a community activist. So much research on the same issue for so many years, can give one a sense of paranormal powers, due to a highly tuned sensitivity of one so devoted to a topic...which makes it seem very easy to predict the near future. But I predicted the rise of gay censorship first on the Internet, some time ago. Check for yourself by viewing this Usenet article I posted in "soc.motss" on April 19, 1999, called "Internet Censorship Can Wipe Out Gays". And my other article posted March 21, 2001 from "alt.activism.peacefire", Australian Internet Censorship Bill.

As most political progressives know by now, Google is one powerful tool of big brother--and growing stronger each day--which spies on any citizen it pleases, and censors whatever it chooses. For more information on the danger of Google, see "GoogleWatch". In sum:

One wouldn't expect such censorship by a company that tells everyone to "Go ogle". (Bada boom, bada bing!)