If you own an electric power company you can’t refuse to deliver power to a strip club or even a brothel because it violates your “right” to sell that “product” to a business you disagree with on some Mormon moral ground.

If you own a water company you can not refuse to provide your “product” to a pornography studio at their place of business because you disagree with them on some “moral” ground…

If you own a phone company you can not refuse to provide services to phone sex operators because of your dogmatic insistence that it is an immoral business and therefor you have the “right” to not sell your “product” to them under the guise of it being *your* personal liberty and freedom to do so.

They are public services and public utilities for the public use and common benefit. They have to be somewhat regulated to keep the lunatic right wing religious fringe like Blue Host from using the law to impose their backwards religious ideals on the rest of us. Right now, you are correct in saying that ISPs are being allowed to hide behind the same laws that apply to a Mom-and-Pop bakery in, say, Monroe, Louisiana, who can sell it’s donuts and tea cakes exclusively to the Southern Baptist Convention members if it so chooses, but those laws are being clarified all the time. An ISP – *in particular an ISP like shady, Mormon-owned, super conservative Blue Host * – that has a national – even global advertising and marketing reach – will not be able to hide behind the Utah Mormon-controlled state laws that protect businesses attempting to impose their religious views on others. Not when it is a service for businesses that are doing interstate and international telecommunications, which is exactly what Blue Host is doing.

Put that in your fancy, magical Mormon underwear and wiggle it around for a minute, JJ! Your personal “American” liberties end when they start encroaching on mine, you fucking tool. I’d almost bet you work for Blue Host trying to do damage control for their increasingly tarnished image. Good luck with that. A quick search for Blue Host and censorship or Mormon, et cetera, turns up tons of stories like this one exposing them for who they really are and what they are really doing to their customers, which is the other benefit of living in a free market society – free speech has the power to right all wrongs, including exposing Blue Host as censors of their customers’ rights to free speech in a society like the United States. People like you make me sick. Don’t tell me about “un-American.” I’ve been a member of the Libertarian party since 1994. I know a thing or two about “American” and “liberty.”

It’s a free market – BlueHost.com owns their servers and has a right to make any policy they want in regards to their usage. And you are free to go elsewhere if you disagree.”

Also worth noting that distributing adult material on servers located in Utah violates state law. . .

The operative word is the first one: Congress. The Government’s ability to restrict speech is very limited. If these forums were being run by an agency of the U.S. Government, participants would have certain rights to speak their minds. A private company, on the other hand, can do whatever it likes. There are alot of reasons I do not allow people to put porn on my servers though. ( I have a privet one for about 60 friends) I just dont like dealing with all the stuff that comes with it. IE Bad scripts, Cookies snipers, Etc etc.

I live here it is nice to not have to have sex in my face all day. I hope you have a great day though

i agree that its a free market and its their servers… but it is still censoring… yes it isnt the govt doing so.

the free market allows me to say “fuck them for their censorship”

1. This is just silly: “Any site on their servers may not contain photos causing sexual arousal (not even listed as pornography) nor any written content may cause sexual arousal.” In that case, I hope that none of their sites have pictures of Ewan MacGregor on it because his pictures certainly cause sexual arousal for me! But as you pointed out BlueHost is based in a state, Utah, that is so chock full of conservative Mormons it makes the conservative Catholics in the state look flaming liberal by comparison. And yet, Salt Lake City has a thriving BDSM community…hmm…

2. Lovely taste in lingerie. I have the same pair.

It’s a free market – BlueHost.com owns their servers and has a right to make any policy they want in regards to their usage. And you are free to go elsewhere if you disagree.

It’s not “censorship” because there is no government force behind what they did, and you can still say what you want, just not using their servers, which they own.

To me, what would be “unconstitutional”, “un-American”, or anti-free market would be if BlueHost.com or whoever was required by government to provide you with a web site.

If I have a product or service, I should have the right to determine who I choose to sell to or refuse to sell to. Do you not want that right in your line of business also?

I’m against the government telling you what you can and can’t have on your web site (that would be censorship), but on the flip side I am also against the government telling a hosting service that they HAVE to let you put anything you want on their privately owned servers.