# Payback for PABAC

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1997/11/19/payback-pabac/
- Published: 1997-11-19T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

PABAC (pronounced “Payback”) is a fundraising scheme that grew out of the Internet
freedom of speech campaign sparked last year by 18-year-old Bennett Haselton.
The
student found that CYBERsitter, Internet filtering software marketed by Solid Oak
Software, was banning a variety of Web resources such as those featuring gay/lesbian
rights and feminism. He published his findings on Peacefire’s Web site, which itself
was then blocked by CYBERsitter’s filtering.

The Page Authors’ Benefit Against Censorship (PABAC) is an Internet-based fund raising
project that is hosted by Peacefire. It was designed to raise money for the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawsuit against the New York Communications Decency
Act. Peacefire members simply hired out their Web design skills in return for a 
$10 per hour donation to the legal fund.

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