

And now… we turn Five!!!

Candles are burning, guests are singing, and parents are standing proud. Of course, in this case we are our own parents. After all, Freedom Porn is us, but it is also created by us. But letʼs stop this line of reasoning before somebodyʼs head explodes.

It is very hard thinking about all this time… the amount of energy and effort that was spent on the site. And all that energy was generated by the desire to spread oneʼs own creation and to combat the world of anti‐sexuality and censorship. And to this day we remain the only project of its kind on the web. One can only hope that all that was done wasnʼt in vain and somebody somewhere found Freedom Porn and was inspired by it to do something positive.

Unfortunately it seems that recently we had a few people who joined with the intention of contributing, but none were able to contribute for their own reasons. It is, of course, perfectly all right; and it is much better to contribute nothing, than to contribute when is not ready. However, it is possible that somebody may simply find it difficult to figure out the upload process, and thus the video guide, explaining picture upload process, was created (others may follow soon):

If you canʼt contribute content to Freedom Porn, but you want to help our anarchist porn portal to develop, you can simply chose to blog about us. When more people come along there is a greater chance that some may decide to contribute.

Things you can mention about Freedom Porn:

We are an anarchist project and donʼt link ourselves to any government or its subpart. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/anarchism



We oppose all sorts of discrimination and all sorts of censorship, we make our views clear and our work transparent. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/Freedom_Porn:politics



We champion the idea of Ethical Smut, which attempts to give some direction to anybody willing to create projects similar to ours. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/Ethical_Smut



We are not scared to provide a list of alternative porn sites to our own. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/list_of_ethical_pornography_resources



We proactively seek out content that is being censored and preserve it. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/Category:preserved_from_censorship



We encourage people to freely share the content available on Freedom Porn. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/Freedom_Porn:copyrights



We will respect your privacy, and have gone to great length to make it known. We even mirror our content to anonymous networks like Freenet and other may be added in the future. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/Freedom_Porn:privacy_policy



We also, unlike most other sites, fight for the privacy of the submitters of content, even when such position may be unpopular in todayʼs fear‐mongering political climate. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/Freedom_Porn:2257



We use MediaWiki, which means that all the activity is completely transparent. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/Special:RecentChanges



We advertise events of other organisations and individuals, we ask for nothing in return, after all we are all in this together. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/Category:events



We support free discussions about our project, linking to such even when they are critical. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/mentioned_in



We do our best to share all the technologies that we create, hoping that other similar projects will spring up. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/Freedom_Porn:free_technology



We use free containers like Ogg or Matröska and free codecs like Theora or Vorbis. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/Special:WhatLinksHere/Help:how_to_play_Ogg



We attempt to chose the most ethical hosting available to us on the internet, sometimes making it slightly harder for ourselves, but ensuring that we donʼt compromise our final goals. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/Freedom_Porn:hosting



We think that sex education is very much needed, and that we should be a part of it. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/Category:sex_education



We encourage safer sex and SSC practices, therefore we try to provide information on these. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/safer_sex



We oppose rape and other forms of sexual violation, but do not give in to hysteria. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/consensual_sex



We give 100% support for the ideas of free love. It is a wonderful thing and must not be made a thing of the past or something and only hippies do (no disrespect to hippies meant, of course). http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/free_love



We link ourselves to the ideas of radical perversion, which oppose putting individuals in boxes and forcing them to live false lives. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/radical_pervert



We clearly allow anybody to help us or to join our project if they agree with our goals. http://www.freedomporn.org/smut/Freedom_Porn:how_to_help



And, as always, if you can contribute financially, to help with the cost of day‐to‐day operations (hosting), please do consider a donation. So far we have gotten a single donation from anybody other than the founding administrator, and it cannot be stressed just how much it helped at that time.