For those of you who are still on the fence, please read the Georgia judge's restraining order against IMBRA:
http://www.imbra.org/images/TROJudge_sFinalOrder.pdfAmong other things, the judge says that the exclusion of Match.com and Yahoo Personals was a violation of the Constitution. If you are going to regulate Americans and foreigners meeting each other, you have to regulate Match.com and Yahoo. Arguments that these websites are more "feminist" friendly...are meaningless. They introduce total strangers to each other and one of those strangers could be dangerous. If you are going to violate everyone's rights because someone might be dangerous, then you have to step on the toes of major corporations like Match and Yahoo who can afford armies of lawyers and get politicians voted out of office.
There is a lawsuit against MySpace.com now. A girl's mother is suing the News Corp subsidiary (of which Fox News belongs) because she feels that the site should be verifying how old everyone is who uses Internet chat sites.
This means that users of VisaJourney.com should have provided proof of who they are and how old they are exactly in order to speak.
This wonderful lawsuit against MySpace.com will help get everyone's rights defined.
While the TJC and European Connections fight themselves to the Supreme Court over IMBRA...many other lawsuits will be fought with companies like MySpace and Yahoo forced to defend themselves with armies of lawyers.
The decisions made in the other lawsuits will directly affect how the Supreme Court finally decides over IMBRA.
I suspect that the MySpace.com lawsuit will end in favor of MySpace.com and the public's right not to have to prove their ages (and therefore their identities) in order to talk online.
Those decisions will be used to defeat IMBRA for the same thing: male users of international dating sites should not have to identify themselves at any point in the process, except on the visa form and then without having to say they used an international dating site.
Notice that IMBRA2005 isn't even trying to pretend that she has a foreign significant other. She is a lobbyist. Her income comes from playing up this issue and getting donations.