"Political Influence of Adult Sites" and "Free Speech Coalition" pressure.

Bill · 2006-02-01, 12:07 AM

Hello Tom - first of all, I want to say thank you for coming by and talking with us. It's clear from your words that you've been thinking about these questions even before coming here and that is immensely gratifying.

Even tho the FSC has been in existence for a long time, the organization is still a new and unknown entity to most of the online sector. 2257 brought the online sector and the FSC closer together than ever before. This presents an oppurtunity to everybody. There are some big fights coming up, fights over legalities and fights over principles, fights over the right to conduct business. There's never going to be a better time to get started on working together and getting prepared for the struggle that's coming.

Onliners have had a very easy time of things the last six years, we haven't had to be that political, and we haven't had to be very unified. A certain degree of dispute, disagreement, bickering, and bitching is just business as usual for us. So, hopefully the FSC can bear with the amount of daily disagreement we take for granted. And bear with us while we try to figure out how we want to do the political thing, because it's new for us.

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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. A blog would cost almost nothing, but it would require some human attention on a regular basis. An online system for accepting credit cards will cost something to install, but it should pay for itself very quickly if properly promoted.

So, we'd kinda like to talk with your webmaster and see what has to happen to get some improvements made.

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Again, thank you very much for coming by.

2006-02-01, 12:07 AM	#11
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	Hello Tom - first of all, I want to say thank you for coming by and talking with us. It's clear from your words that you've been thinking about these questions even before coming here and that is immensely gratifying. Even tho the FSC has been in existence for a long time, the organization is still a new and unknown entity to most of the online sector. 2257 brought the online sector and the FSC closer together than ever before. This presents an oppurtunity to everybody. There are some big fights coming up, fights over legalities and fights over principles, fights over the right to conduct business. There's never going to be a better time to get started on working together and getting prepared for the struggle that's coming. Onliners have had a very easy time of things the last six years, we haven't had to be that political, and we haven't had to be very unified. A certain degree of dispute, disagreement, bickering, and bitching is just business as usual for us. So, hopefully the FSC can bear with the amount of daily disagreement we take for granted. And bear with us while we try to figure out how we want to do the political thing, because it's new for us. --- 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. A blog would cost almost nothing, but it would require some human attention on a regular basis. An online system for accepting credit cards will cost something to install, but it should pay for itself very quickly if properly promoted. So, we'd kinda like to talk with your webmaster and see what has to happen to get some improvements made. --- Again, thank you very much for coming by.