Online Buddies Donates $10,000 to Free Speech Coalition

CANOGA PARK, Calif. — FSC announced Monday that they have received a pledge of $10,000 from Online Buddies Chairman of the Board Jonathon Crutchley to help FSC in their continued efforts to fight 2257.

“Online Buddies Inc. hosts the website at www.Manhunt.net, a dating website for gay men. We have over 1 million registered users, about 600,000 in the U.S. and another 400,000 in other countries,” Crutchley said. “Each member may post as many as 12 pictures with his online profile, and keeping records of proof of age for millions of photographs would not be possible for us. If this law is enforced, we'd be out of business and our members would lose a valuable service.”

“We thank the folks at Online Buddies for their generous donation and commend them for their forward-thinking leadership,” Free Speech Coalition Executive Director Diane Duke said. “They not only understand the critical nature of the problem but also have become a valuable part of the solution.”

Online Buddies is one of four companies that have stepped forward recently to contribute to FSC’s ongoing efforts to defeat 2257. The other companies are Adult FriendFinder, Platinum Bucks and HotMovies.com.

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