The Florida Family Association wants the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute what it called two of the world's largest adult Internet companies. The FFA says the companies are based in Miami and Orlando.
The FFA said its special software, known as Porn Crawler, identified the companies and their sites, after which the group – a satellite of the American Family Association – sent a certified-mail letter to U.S. attorneys in Florida, demanding an investigation and complaining about what it called 20 American companies that are responsible for 70 percent of the Internet's adult content.
FFA director David Caton refused to disclose the names of the companies targeted by the group. "That's not information I care to discuss with the press," he says. "We provided [the information] to the Department of Justice, and we'll leave it at that."
Caton also declined to say whether he had received any answer from the Justice Department yet.
The FFA’s action was discussed by Concerned Women for America chief counsel Jan LaRue in an article published by Human Events, a weekly conservative publication. In the article, LaRue tied the query to the current debate over a .xxx top-level domain to be set aside strictly for adult entertainment.
"Allowing an industry that produces and distributes hardcore pornography prosecutable under the federal obscenity laws to voluntarily self-regulate makes as much sense as allowing Murder Incorporated to regulate hit men who voluntarily register with www.wackjobsrus.mob," LaRue wrote. "No need for the killjoy, meddlesome feds to interfere by enforcing federal law."
