Goatse.CX Suspended

January 15, 2004 11:50 AM

Complaint to nic.cx results in goatse.cx being suspended. Obligatory online petition is started. Screams and sobbing are heard on a regular basis on Slashdot. Links are SFW, but any investigation further may not be. This is truly a dark time for the internet.
posted by angry modem (70 comments total)

As gross as goatse.cx is (was?) it is "Classic Internet"

It will be missed.
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 11:53 AM on January 15, 2004

Sorry, this is the correct petition link.
posted by angry modem at 11:53 AM on January 15, 2004

This is truly a dark time for the internet.

Care to elaborate?
posted by pmurray63 at 11:54 AM on January 15, 2004

rhonda clarke needs to find better things to do with her time.
posted by kjh at 11:54 AM on January 15, 2004

Where is the petition to keep it offline?
posted by hammurderer at 11:55 AM on January 15, 2004

Now where am I to redirect all the hotlinkers to? A valuable tool has been taken from us! :(
posted by jca at 11:56 AM on January 15, 2004

Care to elaborate?

Tongue? Meet cheek.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 11:57 AM on January 15, 2004

For those who don't know what Goatse.cx is:

The WayBack Machine copy of Goatse.cx

NSFW Like You Would Not Believe
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 11:59 AM on January 15, 2004

Great. There goes any chance of me getting VC for my gapingrectums.com site.
posted by milnak at 12:00 PM on January 15, 2004

Tongue? Meet cheek.
Please. Goatse.cx threads are not the place to talk about tongues meeting cheeks. <hurl>
posted by brownpau at 12:01 PM on January 15, 2004

While I am strongly in favor of the domain's right to post whatever questionable content it wishes -- to the detriment of millions of viewers of cheesy bulletin board posts -- and I'm typically an opponent of the tyrrany of the majority when it comes to subjective judgement of propriety, the portion of the AUP quoted in the complaint seems pretty clear that the site (and probably thousands of other sites) is in violation of the agreement.

It's a bad AUP, but "goatse" signed up to abide by it rather than do business with a NIC with fewer restrictions.
posted by majick at 12:02 PM on January 15, 2004

Now where am I to redirect all the hotlinkers to? A valuable tool has been taken from us! :(

there's this girl in a bathtub...
posted by websavvy at 12:09 PM on January 15, 2004

did anyone ever find out exactly who's uh is in the picture?
posted by mcsweetie at 12:10 PM on January 15, 2004

just some asshole.
posted by jonmc at 12:12 PM on January 15, 2004

beautiful comment, jonmc. Ranks up there with "We have cameras," I'd say.

MetaFilter: just some asshole
posted by MrMoonPie at 12:15 PM on January 15, 2004

NSFW Like You Would Not Believe

very not safe, really, for almost anyplace. great for therapists though...increases their business.
only safe, really, if you are blind and use a reader/browser.

still....

first they came for the goatse.cx, but i was not a fan of gaping and so i did nothing...
posted by th3ph17 at 12:21 PM on January 15, 2004

My girlfriend never did get the joke...
posted by xmutex at 12:34 PM on January 15, 2004

When did goatse.cx go live? I think I first stumbled on it in 1999 or 2000 (thanks, slashbots)... It's hard to believe that, in 4+ years, this is the first Acceptable Use complaint.
posted by blue mustard at 12:34 PM on January 15, 2004

Yeah they altered the AUP in 2003 for just this purpose, I believe.
posted by kavasa at 12:44 PM on January 15, 2004

Rest In Peace my little Goatse.

I'll miss you. *sniff*
posted by car_bomb at 12:45 PM on January 15, 2004

First they came for goatse
and I did not speak out....
posted by srboisvert at 12:46 PM on January 15, 2004

srboisvert-

that is funniest thing i have read all morning...
posted by mildred-pitt at 12:58 PM on January 15, 2004

If the domain has been suspended, how come it's still up? Why link to the wayback machine if you could also link to... oh, I'll be nice and not link to it, but goatse.cx/index-orig.html? Has the suspension not gone into effect yet?
posted by emelenjr at 1:04 PM on January 15, 2004

If you've never seen it, it's pretty much like this:


except way, way worse.
posted by mathowie at 1:06 PM on January 15, 2004

I thought srboisvert's comment was especially funny when th3ph17 said essentially the same thing earlier in this very thread.
posted by websavvy at 1:07 PM on January 15, 2004

except way, way worse.

because on goatse.cx, the letters are spaghettios
posted by websavvy at 1:08 PM on January 15, 2004

mathowie is correct. Mr. Stinger is very accessible.
posted by angry modem at 1:12 PM on January 15, 2004

But the Prime Number Shitting Goatse.cx Man shits on...

(NSFW, but educational!)
posted by tittergrrl at 1:16 PM on January 15, 2004

If the domain has been suspended, how come it's still up?

Not sure, but nic.cx gives this information:


Registrant Information:

Domain Name: goatse.cx
Creation Date: 2001-07-10 09:35:12
Expiration Date: 2005-01-06 00:00:00
Last Modified: 2004-01-14 17:43:08

Nameservers:
NS.SUSPENDED.NIC.CX

Status: REGISTRAR LOCK

Registrar: CITC (http://www.NetDNS.cx/)
Whois Server: whois.nic.cx
posted by angry modem at 1:18 PM on January 15, 2004

Meditations on Goatse
posted by homunculus at 1:20 PM on January 15, 2004

I feel like a part of my childhood has been pooped on by this "Rhonda Clarke." This is not my Interweb anymore. I am moving to Canada.
posted by Joey Michaels at 1:22 PM on January 15, 2004

Was anybody still using Goatse? I thought we'd all moved on to tubgirl.com by now.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 1:25 PM on January 15, 2004

Metafilter has scarred me for life.
posted by moonbiter at 1:28 PM on January 15, 2004

Apparently from what I read (and please don't ask me how I found out,) but the goatse man is a hermaphrodite and is actually stretching out his female parts. If you look up his back a bit you will see a divit which I believe is his ass.

I believe that the first time I saw this site marked the true death of my childhood.

Anyways here is a mock interview with Bob Goatse which you may find funny.
posted by daHIFI at 1:28 PM on January 15, 2004

Is Tubgirl ok?
posted by bondcliff at 1:29 PM on January 15, 2004

Goatse Goatse Goatse Oi Oi Oi [flash, possibly nsfw.]
posted by homunculus at 1:33 PM on January 15, 2004

As long as oralse.cx (SFW) continues to frolic through the green, green grass, all is right and well with the universe.
posted by brownpau at 1:34 PM on January 15, 2004

Is Tubgirl ok?

I suppose this depends on your definition of "ok."
posted by Joey Michaels at 1:35 PM on January 15, 2004

When you die, you see the goatse...
posted by RubiX^3 at 1:37 PM on January 15, 2004

Bring out the ASCII.
posted by the fire you left me at 1:39 PM on January 15, 2004

i was once asked to describe goatse at the high school lunch table to one of my friends who'd never seen it.

i drew a crude picture of what looked like two legs, and two hands pulling open an impossible large hole.

another one of my friend proceeded to draw in Lucky Charms as if the hole was actually a bowl. he even penciled in a spoon.

we forever referred to it as ass cereal.
posted by lotsofno at 1:43 PM on January 15, 2004

Ass cereal. (SFW)
posted by brownpau at 1:47 PM on January 15, 2004

"As long as oralse.cx (SFW) continues to frolic through the green, green grass, all is right and well with the universe."

I've been trying and trying, but that kitten just won't die!
posted by nickmark at 1:59 PM on January 15, 2004

BME interview with Mr. Goatse. Has pics - NSFW.

Wikipedia entry on "shock sites" with lots of Goatse info, among other well-known ones like tubgirl. SFW.
posted by Melinika at 2:00 PM on January 15, 2004

Oh, and the Goatse punkin. NSFW I suppose, but if you don't know Goatse then you probably wouldn't know what you're looking at.
posted by Melinika at 2:06 PM on January 15, 2004

Matt, you have given me the Little Mental Scar du jour. Thanks.
posted by RakDaddy at 2:24 PM on January 15, 2004

WOW that interview was disturbing. Holy motherfucking god I will never understand the extreme forms of any sort of play. Woog orgh agh.
posted by kavasa at 2:32 PM on January 15, 2004

After all the buildup, and years of being told it would scar me for life, that actually wasn't all that bad (I read the interview with accompanying photos). Tubgirl was much, much worse, I think.....
posted by anastasiav at 2:59 PM on January 15, 2004

The complainant is listed as Rhonda Clarke... someone on Slashdot found a picture of her.
posted by TreeHugger at 3:43 PM on January 15, 2004

The complainant is listed as Rhonda Clarke... someone on Slashdot found a picture of her.

Nothing good can come of this...
posted by tittergrrl at 3:52 PM on January 15, 2004

Is there an actual Slashdot thread on this?
posted by xmutex at 4:04 PM on January 15, 2004

Oolong!

NSFW, obviously.
posted by pekar wood at 4:05 PM on January 15, 2004

That is really fucking wrong. Whoever did that should be ashamed of themselves, doing that to Oolong's memory. Fuckers.
Goatse can be goatse. Just keep Oolong out of it. RIP old buddy.
posted by ac at 4:08 PM on January 15, 2004

According to the Wiki it is/was hosted in Kansas City.

I've never been prouder of my old hometown.
posted by pandaharma at 4:34 PM on January 15, 2004

The complainant is listed as Rhonda Clarke... someone on Slashdot found a picture of her.

I clicked on that link and misread the headline as "Orifice Manager". Which I guess would be appropriate.
posted by turaho at 4:48 PM on January 15, 2004

I would swear that I rented a room from the Goatse man once. He went by another name and has since died from a strange and rare form of cancer unrelated to the anal fetish. It was related to a small cup he kept by his cookstove which he used to collect and save meat drippings (fat) for reuse. Goatse man was stingy, and the meat fat caused a rare stomach cancer. He never showed his ass to me, fortunately. He never saw mine either. It was platonic. I did help him slaughter a sheep once, but that was nonsexual and quite respectful.

Did anyone else notice Goatse man's marriage ring?

tittergirl - that's the best best laugh I've had in a couple of months. Thanks.

homunculus - that's the second best laugh. thanks also.
posted by troutfishing at 7:31 PM on January 15, 2004

BRING ON TUBGIRL.CX !
posted by wantwit at 8:54 PM on January 15, 2004

lets remember to complain here and here daily folks.
posted by timb at 9:16 PM on January 15, 2004

http://bartse.cx
posted by quonsar at 9:40 PM on January 15, 2004

homunculus, further to Meditations on Goatse is this divine apparition
posted by arse_hat at 9:47 PM on January 15, 2004

I believe!
posted by homunculus at 10:11 PM on January 15, 2004

Well, he dug his own hole.
posted by Pericles at 1:53 AM on January 16, 2004

{ding!}

Pericles wins.
posted by quonsar at 2:31 AM on January 16, 2004

These are some of the funniest comments I've read in in some time..

there's this girl in a bathtub...

Hahahaha!!!
posted by eas98 at 8:20 AM on January 16, 2004

weirdos
posted by Satapher at 10:21 AM on January 16, 2004

I don't really get it. I was never that shocked by goatse anyway. Come on, what's the big deal. Okay, so the guy is pulling open his asshole, so what? How many times do you see vaginas opened to the world on the internet, and that's not such a big hooha. At least it's a clean asshole.

And as for this guy being a hermaphorite so that this is actually a vagina: why is that somehow better? What do you people have against your anuses, if you don't mind my asking? And whatever it is, can you push it a little further in?

Anal sex: it's not just for gay men anymore.

Though tub girl thoroughly disturbs me, I must admit.
posted by Hildegarde at 2:21 PM on January 16, 2004

Okay, so the guy is pulling open his asshole, so what?

"Look at the size of that thing... thing... thing"
posted by inpHilltr8r at 6:06 PM on January 16, 2004

Goatse mirrors.
posted by homunculus at 9:29 PM on January 16, 2004

Somehow, I'm feeling all sorts of nostalgic about my first visit to GoatSe.cx.

I hate you people. I hate you people so much.
posted by stavrogin at 2:27 AM on January 17, 2004

there is something profoundly wrong with there being 69 responses in this thread. i must post to make it 70.

i always found the organ (the colon, i believe) hanging out of the giant asshole to be fairly offensive and disgusting, but that's just me.
posted by pxe2000 at 5:58 PM on January 18, 2004