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Marriage Broker Regulation Impacts Match.com, Friendfinder
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Posted by: Maverick

MARRIAGE BROKER REGULATION IMPACTS MATCH.COM, FRIENDFINDER AND OTHER DATING SITES

The marriage broker regulation act was crafted to exempt the larger mainstream dating sites from the law. This was done to avoid legal battles with the larger more powerful companies. However, opponents of the law are attempting, and will be succesful at enforcing the law upon all sites with foreign women members in order to ensure a suit that will lead to an overturning of the law. The argument includes the following:

...The business models of the larger sites enables foreign women to join for FREE and advertise her desires for a western man. This is exactly what they do. Free means no ability to make the initial contact. Men join, pay the fee and then make the contact. So, the men, just like on the smaller foreign bride sites, start the payment process and follow through by traveling to the foreign country and applying for the visa.

...Women with little or no money or resources (feminists have a problem with this) manage to get themselves on Match and FriendFinder with the intention of marrying men they have not yet met. In fact, you will find many of the same women on both the larger and smaller sites.

...FriendFinder, Match.com, Kiss.com and others all provide a medium for people to meet, just like the smaller foreign bride websites.

Posted by: spamer

and your point is?

Maybe I am missing something here, but this is a very old story running around the net. I first heard it was some state now it's grown to the US. I can't wait until this story grows to a world wide problem.

Somebody help me here ...... how does this effect my life?
(I don't see a problem.)

Posted by: Jim_FL

Spamer, if you have not yet your future wife, it effects your life like this:
BEFORE you decide to correspond with a woman listed on a USA headquarters-based site, you will have to release the agency to do a complete criminal background investigation on you and report those findings to the woman you wish to correspond with.
It will be the responsibility of the agencies, not any government entity. (Can you see how this could get REALLY F#*$@d up, really fast?)

Posted by: ConnerVT

Jim, you and I have written about this ad nauseum in a number of places (I particularly enjoyed the blog with the feminazi

).

We both agree that if this legislation ever makes it out of subcommittee, and was to actually become a law, the end result would be that the matchmaking/dating sites and introduction agencies would just move their operations to be based outside the U.S. to circumvent the legislation.

Posted by: Jim_FL

The Caymens are getting a little shaky, but I do believe Lichtenstien is still tax free (if you can afford the office space)

Ohh, and thanks for the e-mail, enjoyed it immensely and passed it along

making sure to leave the proprietary rights of the wishor intact, of course! Have a good holiday bud........

Posted by: Basileus

There are several CIS based agencies already as far as I know including Svetlana's which I heard is good. So it shouldn't be a problem and you can always circumvent agencies, if you really need to...

Basil

Posted by: ConnerVT

So it starts again...

I know you probably haven't read much of the discussions that have been made on this subject. It actually hasn't been beat to death too much on this forum as it has in other places. Although the intent is good (who can be against protecting women?), it is a poorly written, uninformed law that won't accomplish what it sets out to do.

As it is easy to bash agencies, not all of them are bad. There a a good number of fine, honest agencies with good people making their livelihood both in the US and FSU. I know a number of men and women (including myself) who are very happy with the support they have received from agencies. In this law, they also group in all of the Internet dating services (including the one run by Lena here on RMP).

As the law is written, it already excludes the big Internet sites with dating such as MSN and Yahoo (the one's with deep pockets to pay for the expensive lawyers). The rest will either close shop, or move offshore.

The problem with making it difficult for a business to operate legally is that it creates more businesses that operate illegally.

There are so many other things wrong with this law, I hate to begin to list them. Let's just say a team of ACLU lawyers can keep themselves busy as counsel for both sides.