major players
hentaiFREE (www.nohentai.com)
(becoming "Sites Without Hentai")
The leading anti-hentai organization, hentaiFREE boasts 2578 members
and an application rate of roughly 200 new sites per month as of
23 December 1999. They have recently acquired the above domain name
and absorbed WC-20
head Rebecca
Chen into the vice-presidency role. CereCere of the Amazoness
Quartet describes hF as one
of the worst trends of 1999 ("HentaiFREE serves no logical
purpose other than to create a paranoia that every second anime
site is going to contain hentai").
hentaiFREE recently went down completely, after repeated murmurings of a "new layout." The splash graphic which has been up for several days (as of 17 February 2000) informs graphical browser users that "hentaiFREE is gone. Sites Without Hentai is coming." Whether this represents a shift in focus or simply a cosmetic change is as yet unclear.
rebuttal to hF mission 1.0 / archive of mission beta
WC-20 (www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/8115/)
WC-20, a more general "anti-smut" site with an eye towards
hentai, follows close behind in profile, if not membership. The
webring, as of 26 December 1999, contained 88 links (some, including
one belonging to its president, dead); the individual membership
list was missing. WC-20 appears to have gone rusty; the projects
list from some time ago is missing, the partnership link to hentaiFREE
is two generations out of date, and the webring is not necessarily
well-kept. It remains to be seen whether Chen's involvement with
hF will result in a merger, or if WC-20 will see further upkeep
(a Flash splashpage doesn't really count as content).
Bob King: 20 Ways to Meet EPIC and the ACLU in Court (soon)