Anyone here feel best qualified to be point man with the FSC?

[karomesis]

It is not even about right or wrong. Well maybe it is the right thing to do but the by-product is when your ass is on the carpet, you can say "I did everything in my power to let your child know that I did not want him in my site. Now go take some parenting classes"

Yes, but there are a million things which do far more damage to children than the evil and sinister world of online porn. It's similar to the drug war on cannabis, not one fatality has EVER been attributed to it, yet they put people in prison for long terms for it, some of whom won't get out of prison until cars hover like the jetsons.

Wht I was saying is that it will never be enough. Even if the industry mandates warning pages and such, what will be next? and so on.

Send Useless Warrior and me to lobby for you. We do tend to speak our minds. Once we call 535 politicians cocksuckers, you will all be out of business.

If you were actually sent to lobby what would be your first plan of action? Seriously.

Concessions? I honestly can't think of anything that has been put into place where legit online webmasters had to change their sites, including the new 2257, which is not yet a law.

I stand corrected, I guess I was wrong.

Greenguy, are you confident that if we did mandate the warning pages that it would stop them from asking for more? If so, then I think it's a great idea, and Hopefully you're right.

[Chop Smith]

Originally Posted by karomesis

If you were actually sent to lobby what would be your first plan of action? Seriously.

Straight up answer. I don't need money bad enough to stoop that low. I spend most of my life and three of my five years of college being prepped to be one of those 'sonsofbitches politicians' to become heir to a good ole boy position.

If the question is what would I do to fight the battle?

Determine which animal you need -donkey or elephant. Since the Republicans are in power, I would locate the lobbying firm that is headed by the most conservative Souther Baptist in Washington. It would probably be the old Haley Barber firm and since I know he still owns it, I would get Trent Lott to speak to him first. From there you just have to do what you are told. They will tell you how much it cost to trap a bill in committee or how to keep a suit off the court docket.

Could I afford to do the above. No and I have not seen the FSC's financials but I doubt they can afford it either.

BTW, has anyone ever researched the admin expenses of FSC?

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Chop Smith

BTW, has anyone ever researched the admin expenses of FSC?

Studying the FSC is one of the things I put on the top of my list of things to do, in this conversation I had going on about that a month ago.

It's why I said we needed a point man in the first place, to go to meetings and report back to us what the inner workings and discussions about finances were. Direct information rather than the massaged information usually given to members and outsiders.

I've been studying the question a bit, it looks like most organizations like this have about a 30% overhead. It can probably be done for less, but not all that much less.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by karomesis

...Greenguy, are you confident that if we did mandate the warning pages that it would stop them from asking for more? If so, then I think it's a great idea, and Hopefully you're right.

I don't think you get what I'm saying. I've used warning pages for as long as I can remember. They make sense to me. I think I started using them in 97, but the oldest pages I can find in the waybackmachine is January 98:
http://web.archive.org/web/199801280...nk-o-rama.com/
(ugh - what was I thinking - LOL)

Maybe try to think of it this way - if a local adult store had ads in the windows depicting hardcore sex & the door was open & there were no signs posted that it was an adults only store, would that fly?