Do you think our adult sites have any political infulance

[SirMoby]

We may want the site hosted off shore. We're facing at least three more years of censorship and my guess is the hosting company and the owner of the crentral domain will come under attack.

This is a perfect place to keep an ongoing blog as well as a message.

[Tommy]

well after sleeping on it

I came up with this

1) if we start attacking political figures they aren't gonna change their ways they will just try to get rid of us faster

IF we made any impact it would be faster and easy er to just get rid of us

2) taking a lesson from the republican party
we need to attack the bad myths about us. we need to tell our side and prove its not true, while staying neutral in the political environment

which isn't hard to do

like the myth that we use our sites to target children
that all of our sites are filled with spy ware and viruses
that passing laws in the us will make any difference in the amount of porn
that we cause or promote the use of child porn

I think that this is a election year if we are gonna put out anything bad about political candidates we should wait till November and maybe even then we shouldn't

also taking a political stand could cost of customers

what do you guys think

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Tommy

...what do you guys think

I agree, informative and postive. Avoid the political and negative.

[Halfdeck]

It would be cool if we set up a fight-the-war-on-porn fund on the site, and somehow the website got alot of buzz in the media. Whatever fund the site generates then we can pour into fighting the uninformed / braindead policitians.

[LowryBigwood]

Originally Posted by Tommy

well after sleeping on it

I came up with this

1) if we start attacking political figures they aren't gonna change their ways they will just try to get rid of us faster

IF we made any impact it would be faster and easy er to just get rid of us

2) taking a lesson from the republican party
we need to attack the bad myths about us. we need to tell our side and prove its not true, while staying neutral in the political environment

which isn't hard to do

like the myth that we use our sites to target children
that all of our sites are filled with spy ware and viruses
that passing laws in the us will make any difference in the amount of porn
that we cause or promote the use of child porn

I think that this is a election year if we are gonna put out anything bad about political candidates we should wait till November and maybe even then we shouldn't

also taking a political stand could cost of customers

what do you guys think

I agree with all you said here. If you guys come up with a button or something we can use to link to the pages talking the myths about us, I would run it on all my stuff. I don't care to get into political shit slinging on my sites tho.

[Mr. Blue]

Originally Posted by Tommy

what do you guys think

Whatever is done has to be positive in nature, has to be written by someone who can be eloquent, passive, and non-confrontational. It still needs to be firm though, dispelling myths, and painting a picture of freedoms being denied.

A radical statement, no matter how true it is, will only give fodder for the other side to attack the industry. However, if you make the attackers look stupid by taking the high road...you'll achieve a far greater support.

If this is done, it has to be done right or not done at all. I like the blog idea, but, even the comments would have to be monitored, the "industry" insiders would have to present themselves in a very professional way. BUSH SUCKS, lol, no matter how true it is, wouldn't be a good post.

Do it, but do it right. It can be our best advertising or turn into something for further ridicule of the industry. It's a tightwire act, but I think it should be done.

[odysseus]

I think Mr. Blue sums it up right there. Well said.