Earlier this week, the NY Times ran a piece describing L.A.-based BoingBoing's battle with SmartFilter, a nanny-ware product that indexed and blocked the popular culture-and-science blog from its users because it supposedly contains nudity.
If you read BoingBoing regularly, you know that's rarely so - nude images are carefully cropped and the links plainly labeled NSFW when BoingBoing does go "blue."
Now Sean Bonner has turned up interesting information via Google that he says ties the name of a SmartFilter exec to a newsgroup for "Adult Baby" fetishists who get off by dressing in diapers and baby togs ...
Blogging at Suicide Girls from his remote perch at eTech, Sean posts:
The New York Times just wrote a piece about this situation including a quote from one of the people at Secure Computing who decides what to block.
In an e-mail message to Xeni Jardin, another of Boing Boing's chiefs, Tomo Foote-Lennox, a director of filtering data for Secure Computing, asked why the bloggers were starting a war. "We discussed several ways that you could organize your site so that I could protect the kids and you could distribute all the information you wanted," Mr. Foote-Lennox wrote.
Please note that Mr. Foote-Lennox seems to imply that he has to protect the children.
Now, let's do a little research on this man who is so concerned with children, shall we? Googling his name turns up some rather . . . interesting . . . results. There are several messages on the alt.sex.diapers newsgroup (a group for Adult Baby fetishists) that come from someone named Tomo Foote-Lennox. Is it the same guy? In one of these messages he's inviting people to a party and then later posting a review of that party.
I am still in the process of locating the AB's in Minnesota. People are pretty private here, but I contacted several in time to invite them to the party. Several people hoped to drive in from Chicago, but at the last minute, plans fell through. People from as far away as New Jersey and San Francisco were attempting to make it, but didn't pull it off this time. We ended up with a nice, intimate gathering of seven with even gender balance. I hope for more next time.
Pam was new to being a baby, but willing. She chose a bubble sun suit with a bib top from Kitten's wardrobe. After being powdered and diapered, it just took some pigtails to make her look positively adorable.
Clinton brought some really, really thick diapers. Though there was some talk about having an all baby girl party (we had enough cute little baby frocks), Clinton and Erich ended up being baby boys. Since we had Mommy Kathy and Daddy Mike to run the party, I decided it would be more fun to be a baby. Often I am a baby girl, but at the birthday girl's request, I was baby boy this time.
Posted by: Mack_Reed on Wednesday, March 08, 2006 - 04:58 PM