Escort Safety: Why We Don't Remove Posts
Federal Law, CDA; It's Why We Cannot Edit or Remove Posts!
Reasons for this new updated policy.
- Federal Law, specifically, "The Communications Decency Act" of 1996, (CDA) holds harmless Internet Service Providers, from content that is posted on its website by its users or members. Because National Blacklist is a user driven interactive website, otherwise known as a 3rd party posting platform, Congress determined in a landmark cyberlaw case that websites like National Blacklist are not to be construed as publishers (and are thus not legally liable for the words of third parties [users/members] who use their services).
- Immunity granted by CDA: So long as the Incident Reports remain 3rd party posts. - There is talk that some law makers are exploring the rescinding of Immunity” in cases where it can be determined that an Internet provider has taken any actions to control or alter its content. Therefore, National Blacklist, to avoid risking the possibility of losing its immunity, cannot delete any posts, or edit them even in the slightest way, without becoming considered the post's "co-author," thereby now assuming legal responsibility for any or all the posts in its database. The reasoning behind why Federal Law could then consider us legally responsible for the posts, is because if we edit any of the Incident Reports, or delete them, it would then imply that we have some knowledge of the truth of what really happened, or that we are manipulating the presentation of the events of what happened, or are biased in such. Since we do not know you, the escort who made the post, or anything about what happened in your communications or in person privacy between you, it is not our place to edit or remove any posts for any reason, and in order for National Blacklist to maintain the immunity currently afforded to Internet Service Providers by Federal Law (CDA) we are compelled to leave all posts unedited in their original form, as intended by their authors.
Other Considerations
- We are a Public Safety site (like a crime stoppers), therefore we have to treat all posts as seriously as possible. Due to the grim nature of many of the posts, the livelihood, the personal safety, or the very lives of escorts may depend on the information being listed here. Editing or removing any posts may thereby place escorts in harms way, and that is not what we are about.
- Histories or Patterns or Behaviors - National Blacklist is only effective when all complaints are maintained and preserved so that over time the patterns of an individual’s behaviors, personality traits, values, beliefs, and character patterns are properly exposed and comprehensive in scope. If we allowed complaints to be removed it would detract from the completeness of any given individual’s profile history and then pose a possible safety risk to other escorts in the future who may have needed that information to make a complete and informed decision regarding that individual.
- Reliability and Trust - To remove any reports for any reason would not only detract from the trust and integrity we’ve established over the years, but it would then open the door for others to suspect us, or accuse us, of playing favorites or engaging in unethical practices.We cannot allow those perceptions to be possible.
- Maintaining Positive Control - If we allowed complaints to be removed, this would give an incentive for the bad individuals to pressure escorts through blackmail, extortion, intimidation, or violence, to remove true and accurate negative reports, or it could also open the door possibly for individuals to bribe escorts into removing a report, and we can’t allow that temptation by either party to occur. When it comes to safety issues with escorts, we do not condone men threatening ladies with blackmailing, extortion, or physical harm, to remove posts, nor do we condone them buying their way off our list either.
- Blanket Policy Overview - Under this policy, no reports are to ever be removed, so there is no benefit to any individuals who threaten, pressure, or bribe escorts into getting them to retract a valid complaint. Even if this means that one or more questionable posts are left up, we think that the removal of any reports would ultimately make this site less credible and thus less effective as a safety tool for protecting all escorts.
If this seems unfair or unreasonable, consider this real life scenario. If someone is arrested for a crime like assault or child molestation, but is later released due to insufficient evidence, it doesn’t mean the individual who was released is innocent. It just means that there was not sufficient evidence to hold the suspect, or convict the suspect in a court of law at that time. The police and courts will file the arrest report with the suspected allegations in an "incident report" and save it for the future in case something like that with that particular individual happens again. That’s all National Blacklist is, it's just an incident registry. It does not mean you are guilty of anything, just that someone is claiming something happened between you, or they are sharing an opinion about you, based on your email, phone conversdations, or live and in personal interaction with them.
While all this may seem grossly unfair to you, and you're mad as hell and maybe you want to sue us or someone, please familiarize yourself with the following law; The Communications Decency Act and how National Blacklist is protected by the CDA.
With deep gratitude we thank the following organizations for fighting for an individual’s rights to make protected Free Speech postings on the internet, and in fighting for the rights of websites like ours to host such postings.
