[AusNOG] ISP's are the new media. We dont need TV to get the message out.

[Sean K. Finn]

Narelle,
I understand your indignation at my idea, and when you put it like that, then I'm inclined to agree and give myself an uppercut for suggesting it, However:

My point is mainly that we have the power to directly reach our own customers eyeballs in some fashion with whatever message we may want to spit out.

As an alternative, how about an email out to all direct customers outlining your own stance, and requesting that they tell their friends and sundry?

Eyeballs reached, some sort of unified message delivered, and let people then vote how they will.

Collectively this list easily represents and can reach a few million eyeballs directly.
Enough to make some noise.
Messing with traffic = Bad.
Reaching Eyeballs = Good.

S
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So, if your telco diverted you to a political message on your first phone call of the day, you wouldn't consider that a breach of supply?

Banners on your own sites (news pages, billing pages, webmail pages etc) are one thing but to divert traffic for political purposes is not quite in the spirit of opposition... and arguable that a corollary to this is that all potential rapists should be raped?

Not my preferred campaign method, no. And I remain opposed...



Narelle
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Sean K. Finn <sean.finn at ozservers.com.au<mailto:sean.finn at ozservers.com.au>> wrote:
Guy's I've been having some thoughts on how to deliver the message, and I think collectively, or even individually as organisations we can reach eyeballs directly.

The Internet has the reach to get a message out there, we don't need  TV or even social media on the net.

What's to stop an ISP, or any number of ISP's presenting a landing page to a customer on their first request on one day for an index.html file, with a political message from their ISP asking them to not support XYZ policy (In this case the filter).

Something as simple as that is unobtrusive, displays once and surely gets the message out there without costing a fortune.

The news paper overlords recognise the power of the media they owned.

Elections are won and lost at the whims of the Packer and Murdoch families based on print media.

It's the same now except we control the new media.

As a hosting provider I would have a damn hard time embedding a message into the first requested index.* from an IP address for the day, because at the end of the day they aren't my customers, they are my customers customers viewing the pages.

But as an ISP you have the Eyeballs, you can stick a page up in front of them, and it would be much easier to setup in a few days of concerted effort.

Hell knows, if the gov't backed down with the miners TV ads, think of what the rest of us could get done if we put it to them.


Sean.

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