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• Arresting Watchdogs, Too????
  Watchdogs are private citizens who enter borderline discussions in order to track pedophiles. Sometimes they are actually parents looking for their own kidnapped children. Watchdogs will participate, as adults, in many risky discussions in order to send publicly available postings to professional law along with a letter as to why they, as private citizens, think that a particular poster may be an adult stalking a specific child.
  
  The best watchdogs are able to notice when physical location discussions appear to be moving toward direct contact and also notice the bridge phrases that lead to hard-core sites.
  
  The law enforcement then can use existing laws and their own judgement as to getting more information if they see cause to do so. This does not infringe anyone's private information, nor does it expose innocent people to false accusations, as the new law certainly would do. Watchdogging does not presume guilt, in fact it presumes innocence in asking legitimate authorities to take the steps necessary to investigate a specific situation before anyone gets accused of anything.
  
  The new laws will presume guilt on the part of all adults who appear in risky discussions. This can include those who are involved in a completely innocent thread that later gets hijacked by new participants.
  
  We have all seen groups in the internet change in character as membership evolves. We know that our membership info in groups we have long forgotten can persist.
  
  This new ISP set of rules is absurdly dangerous and ineffective. It can only hurt the innocent and let the guilty swim free in a sea of confusion.

  May 16, 2006

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• to clarify
  by "association" I mean the people who use PayPal services to run small businesses very securely and who are damaged more and more by these rumor-mill sites.
  
  Once I began looking closely at the reasons for most of these "horror" stories, they are from people who have tried to have personal fee-free accounts running businesses to they were essentially stealing the services the rest of us pay for, when we are classified as a business and allow PayPal to take its aggreed tiny percent of our incoming payments. No regular bank offers that level of service for the tine percent PayPal does. Individuals proprietors are pumpng a lot of money into the eceonomy by being able to use PayPal, and these "horror story" sites hurt because they appeal to the naive, and get a lot of circulation in our customer base.

  February 1, 2006

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• PayPal IS regulated, and better than many banks
  Here is a quote from the paypal hater site posted above:
  While we do not have the resources to verify each and every complaint we receive, we do believe that all reports posted here are true based on our own experience with Paypal and the growing number of corroborating horror stories we receive every day.
  
  That site is nothing but a rumor mill and carries ads for other financial services. Paypal offers a wide range of EXCELLENT services that many banks don't offer, and PayPal would not even be in the Money Market service business if it was not ALREADY regulated by all the finance laws that regulate everyone else.
  
  So the highest paying account available to small enterpreneurs and individuals shave a quarter of a percetage point to cover its expenses? How is that worse than the fully regulated bank down the street that charges over a hundred dollars a year just to have an account at all?
  
  I am so tired of seeing these rumor-mill sites wrecking the creditbility of people by association with stories they admit they can't prove!!!!

  February 1, 2006

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