I found another sponsor today - or at least I thought I had. This one had some content which would have fitted very well into one or more of my blogs and, I'm sure, would have been very successful.
Nowadays, as you know, I check the 'Terms and Conditions' issued by any porn sponsor very thoroughly. So I got my glasses on and off I went.
It all seemed okay. No problems about payment and no problems with where a webmaster could come from. I read on ....
Then I found this:
You AGREE that any of the following will result in ALL of your accounts being terminated without pay, ALL of your unpaid commissions being FORFEITED to Company, and will further result in you being precluded from ever participating in any of our Programs:
SPAM
Promoting or dealing in content such as: Warez, passwords, MP3, bestiality, rape, child pornography, violence, or any other illegal activity.
Attempt to mislead or defraud Company in any way....
etc, etc .......
And then, on this same list (and remember, this list refers to all sorts of heinous crimes):
"New accounts from Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Egypt, Estonia, Georgia, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kaliningrad, Kazakhstan, Korea (North and South), Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Moldova, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Trinidad, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia."
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To (a) discriminate against particular countries without giving a fair reason is bad enough (especially as, it appears anyway, although I come from one of these 'banned countries', the sponsor would be quite happy for me to sell their porn - but not to my own countrymen).
But
To (b) lump all these countries together on a list which includes obvious criminals is inexcusable.
Nothing more to say really (apart from the fact that of course I didn't sign up for them). I'm just very angry to be treated this way.
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