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"Violet Blue is an adult site". Well 'Violet Blue' is my girlfriend, she's not a website :P Do you mean "vb.ly"? It certainly was not an adult site - it was

• swombat 16y ago
  Well, your girlfriend is obviously an adult! Case closed! ;-) More seriously, she does seem to be rather, er, focused on the topic of sex... Which is great, but I can see why they would object, if sex-related things are banned in Lybia.
  • dotBen 16y ago
    (lol, yes she is an adult!) to your main point: Well that's kind the issue isn't it? Yes Violet is 'focused on the topic of sex' she's a leading author in the field (30+ books on Amazon), appears on Oprah show about the topic, lectures at universities, etc. But if you are right, isn't that too far if a domain authority removes someone's domain because the line of work and academic research they are in? Like I said, the site itself was hardly adult, even if Violet's own life, work and research is against their laws (somehow, perhaps).
    • semanticist 16y ago
      It would definitely be too far in the UK or the US. Apparently it's not in Libya. A screenshot I saw of the main vb.ly page had a picture with enough flesh that it itself was probably illegal under Libya law.
    • rms 16y ago
      >even if Violet's own life, work and research is against their laws (somehow, perhaps). Under crazy interpretations of Sharia law, Violet probably would have been stoned by now.
• 1va 16y ago
  > Well 'Violet Blue' is my girlfriend, I guess that may have been a little predictable from TFA, but I'm regularly surprised by the folks who crop up at HN. I've been reading both your and VB's work for years, it is a funny coincidence to discover there is an relationship between you.