Greenguy's Board - View Single Post - "Political Influence of Adult Sites" and "Free Speech Coalition" pressure.

Bill · 2006-02-03, 03:39 PM

I'm trying to come up with a list of the suggestions made so far, I'm just going to try to number them in order received:

1. To start, I want to make one suggestion to you that I think everyone here would agree with. We'd like to see improvements to the website, to have the website modernized a bit. An online system for accepting memberships and contributions would probably be the most important thing, and something that allows quicker two way communications, like a blog.

2. We know FSC will bitch about the cost of revamping their website. So we have a fund&skills drive here at GG&J, pull together the few thou and the workers it will take to give them a CC processor and a blog. In exchange the FSC puts a banner to GG&J on their website, making GG&J the "official" cool webmaster board.

3. Set up a one-hour live chat session with the FSC where any webmaster can participate without hopping on a plane.

4. When you finally get your online payment system happening, would you consider offering an “associate membership” for non US citizens? Or perhaps accept one-off donations?

5. Fund a general advertising campaign telling parents how to use filtering software - and make sure they knew it was the adult industry behind the ads. And on top of that, you'd probably need to launch a big PR campaign making sure the media know about the advertising and report on it. It's hard to put an anti-porn spin on the idea of "Adult Industry promotes web filtering", although I'm sure they'll give it a red hot go.

6. lobby Visa to drop their "high risk" $750 extortion fee.

7. (paraphraseing what I think Alex is really saying) Make the FSC more transparent by discussing membership numbers, budget, and expenses.

And I'll add #8:

8. Hire an "online information officer" whose job would be to use boardtracker to patrol the boards (and maybe blogs), answer questions about the FSC and make reports about FSC activities, make daily or weekly entries in the newly created FSC blog, and in other ways act as a liason between the onliners and the FSC board.

So, that's 8 suggestions to start out with - we need about a dozen more to make this an official brainstorm.

Do me a favor please, and if you make a suggestion, bullet point it or otherwise emphasize it so it's easy to find and copy.

And don't stop making suggestions - we need a dozen more! What do you want the FSC to do for us, if we could get them to spend up to $50K on your project?

2006-02-03, 03:39 PM	#3
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	I'm trying to come up with a list of the suggestions made so far, I'm just going to try to number them in order received: 1. To start, I want to make one suggestion to you that I think everyone here would agree with. We'd like to see improvements to the website, to have the website modernized a bit. An online system for accepting memberships and contributions would probably be the most important thing, and something that allows quicker two way communications, like a blog. 2. We know FSC will bitch about the cost of revamping their website. So we have a fund&skills drive here at GG&J, pull together the few thou and the workers it will take to give them a CC processor and a blog. In exchange the FSC puts a banner to GG&J on their website, making GG&J the "official" cool webmaster board. 3. Set up a one-hour live chat session with the FSC where any webmaster can participate without hopping on a plane. 4. When you finally get your online payment system happening, would you consider offering an “associate membership” for non US citizens? Or perhaps accept one-off donations? 5. Fund a general advertising campaign telling parents how to use filtering software - and make sure they knew it was the adult industry behind the ads. And on top of that, you'd probably need to launch a big PR campaign making sure the media know about the advertising and report on it. It's hard to put an anti-porn spin on the idea of "Adult Industry promotes web filtering", although I'm sure they'll give it a red hot go. 6. lobby Visa to drop their "high risk" $750 extortion fee. 7. (paraphraseing what I think Alex is really saying) Make the FSC more transparent by discussing membership numbers, budget, and expenses. And I'll add #8: 8. Hire an "online information officer" whose job would be to use boardtracker to patrol the boards (and maybe blogs), answer questions about the FSC and make reports about FSC activities, make daily or weekly entries in the newly created FSC blog, and in other ways act as a liason between the onliners and the FSC board. So, that's 8 suggestions to start out with - we need about a dozen more to make this an official brainstorm. Do me a favor please, and if you make a suggestion, bullet point it or otherwise emphasize it so it's easy to find and copy. And don't stop making suggestions - we need a dozen more! What do you want the FSC to do for us, if we could get them to spend up to $50K on your project?