Do you think our adult sites have any political infulance

[MadMax]

Originally Posted by Mr. Blue

This thread seems to be losing its focus and it's unfortunate that it is because something positive can come out of it. What we want is a professional statement written about the facts of what's going on, devoid of rabble rousing, devoid of personal attacks on any political entity or institution, and creating that "positive" message. If we agree that this is our goal / objective, what's the next step?

That's the page I'm on. Let's put together an outline and get it written.

[Bill]

It would actually be a pretty challenging writing job.

You would want your message to be boiled down to about 3 statements, short and emotionally vivid. Easy to remember and repeat ideas, simple and direct, that could be passed around to counter the sound bytes that big media has perfected.

So, the core should be short, one fairly short page, that you could surround with supporting pages of explanation. The core should be as self explanatory as possible, tho, and make perfect sense without any of the additional writing.

Ideally, it should be newsworthy, good enough to stand being shown on CBS, CNN, and FOX.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by MadMax

That's the page I'm on. Let's put together an outline and get it written.

Yep, I think one of the first points we need to address is that fact that the term "child pornography" has come to be an acceptable term for describing either children being taken advantage of and children viewing porn. By lumping them together it gives the public a warped view of what's going on.

[guestcam]

Originally Posted by walrus

Yep, I think one of the first points we need to address is that fact that the term "child pornography" has come to be an acceptable term for describing either children being taken advantage of and children viewing porn. By lumping them together it gives the public a warped view of what's going on.

actually we do not want to cloud the main issue with that topic.

we as an industry want NO PART of trying to split hairs on what CP term means what. it looks WAY too much like some sort of justication.

the only position we should take on CP is 'we will do all we can to assist any government agency in the pursuit of those criminals engaging in the production and distribution of CP'

Yeah CP is its whole own top level domain of debate. You make that a main point of our statement and it will just grab all the mass media's attention.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by guestcam

actually we do not want to cloud the main issue with that topic.

we as an industry want NO PART of trying to split hairs on what CP term means what. it looks WAY too much like some sort of justication.

the only position we should take on CP is 'we will do all we can to assist any government agency in the pursuit of those criminals engaging in the production and distribution of CP'

Yeah CP is its whole own top level domain of debate. You make that a main point of our statement and it will just grab all the mass media's attention.

I dont think it is splitting hairs at all and is central to the debate. A gentleman I know and have a lot of respect for was not opposed to the google thing because he thought they were talking about cp. When explained the other way around...it changed his mind completely.

IMHO, it is central to everything. because as long as the opposition can tie our legitamte business to an illegal one, in the mind of the masses, they will always find support by simply wrapping in the cloak of the illegal one. To ignore and not address it gains very little because while you may sway people to our side, they wont know which side that is.

The GOP is very good at doing this and look for irregularities all you want in the last election but again IMHO their abilty to wrap Kerry into something he wasn't is largely what got "W" re-elected.

Basic NLP stuff, first start with something everyone can agree on and then lead them into morphing it into what you want them to believe.