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Violet Blue
Personal blog · tinynibbles.comculturewriting
Violet Blue's personal blog at tinynibbles.com covers culture and writing. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2019, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Violet Blue's blog for posts on the .ly domain being treated as unsafe over adult content and on a dispute with Google over her name. The comments discuss those topics rather than the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sex educator Violet Blue's site for adult video reviews, oral sex information, erotic books and more. All in well-lubricated, tasty, bite-sized pages.
What Hacker News says?
Culture clash... looking at the sites screenshot here: http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2010/10/official-vb-... (NSFW) I can see how under strict Islamic law that pic would be construed as "obscene, offensive and illegal". I have... minimal sympathy with these people - a lot of the fault lies with themselves for not understanding the rules, morals and society of the country they were buying from. I don't thin…
Comment linking /blogarchives/2010/10/official-vb-ly-link-shortener-seized-by-libyan-government.html
on “The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe”Submitted SF Chronicle accused of SEO spamming by sex columnist (site NSFW) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm not sure if this is a real change to the nic.ly policy or not. It's tricky. They say it was adult content. While vb.ly might not have had any, it was co-owned by Violet Blue, who while she is many wonderful things, she is not islamic. Violet Blue's Website: http://www.tinynibbles.com/ It's not just Libya, the US govt which has ultimate control over .com, .org, .net, .us, .gov, etc... also has some crazy ideas. J…
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on “The .ly domain space to be considered unsafe”I will stand partially corrected on the issue of you changing your name for the purpose of the suit. However - you are amazingly cagey, and very specifically wordy around the issue of your birth name. “My name is legally Violet Blue.” You make claims of having never changed your name. You post (redacted) pictures of your passport on your blog ( http://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarchives/2008/08/about-those-... ) as “pr…
Comment linking /blogarchives/2008/08/about-those-restraining-orders.html
on “Google outed me”