Ten Porn Websites Were Threatened in Granholm Letter Michigan's attorney general Jennifer Granholm threatened at least ten porn websites with legal action in last week's guilt by association letter that was sent to iBill, a website billing company. Frankiesangels.com was one of them. The other nine are identified in that letter. Frank Bongiorno says iBill has now assured him that they would support him in any legal action against Granholm. Bongiorno says attorney Jeffrey Douglas has referred him to a free speech attorney in Michigan. "I've gotten a proposal on what the costs might be and we're going to try and generate some funds for this legal endeavor," says Bongiorno. "We're going to go after her for defamation of character and do it in a way that creates as much publicity as possible. We want to get this on CNN and MSNBC; we want to get this story any place we can possibly get it. We're going to keep plugging away until she gives us a public apology, recants what she said and pays us for our losses." According to Bongiorno, the webmasters of the other nine sites being targeted are reluctant to go public. "I don't know why," he says. "That doesn't make any sense to me. Adult webmasters aren't known to be the best businessmen in the world." The ten companies are listed in the threatening letter sent from Granholm to iBill. Granholm specifically states that the companies are "engaged in the promotion and distribution of child pornography" - a libelous accusation if there were ever legal grounds to sue. Granholm accuses iBill, vis a vis, of aiding and abetting the distribution of child pornography and that their conduct will result in prosecution. iBill is ordered to cease and desist in its activities. Bongiorno said on advice of Jeffrey Douglas he'd be breaking the other adult companies' rights to privacy by divulging their names from the letter. The companies include gay sites, fetish sites and straight. "Mine stands out like a sore thumb," Bongiorno says. "The other ones are pretty hardcore urls. Frankiesangels seems out of place on the list." In au the daily planet,a legal brothel has been ordered to pull alleged 'ads' off the web as they can be printed out in Victoria.The Judge joins a list of aussi Canutes that includes state attorneys of NSW and SA.Also the Federal Minister has had some flak for being a bull in an internet china shop.('cept the damge is being routed around)
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