Radical Conservative Judges Want to Shut Down Biggest Internet Business Sector
All Of 'Em - Connecting All of the Adult Webmaster Resources Together: "As Christmas draws near and Internet pornographer Chris Wilson sits alone in a Polk County jail cell, his lawyers are still working to free him. And they've been joined by the American Civil Liberties Union. Wilson's already notorious case stirred up new controversy this week when a Polk County judge revoked his bail for continuing to operate his pornographic Web site after his Oct. 7 arrest on 301 obscenity charges. Wilson's lawyer, Larry Walters of Orlando, argued that because the images posted on Wilson's Web site have not yet been legally determined to be obscene, Wilson has not broken any laws and therefore hadn't violated the conditions of his bail. Also on Thursday, the ACLU, the Free Speech Coalition (a coalition that represents the adult industry) and the First Amendment Lawyer's Association together filed a brief with the Second District Court of Appeal asking that they reverse Durrance's decision and free Wilson. In their brief, they said that Wilson's bail revocation and imprisonment 'represents the greatest threat to the adult online industry . . . since the adult industry's inception.' They say that Wilson's arrest will have a chilling effect on operation of adult Web sites nationwide because prosecutors everywhere could effectively shut down any Web site with a single obscenity charge. After that single charge, the ACLU brief argues, the Web sit"







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