Legislating for the Long Term?

[T Bruce Tober]

In message <1ABF45B5BE6@lucs-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk>, Yaman Akdeniz
<lawya@lucs-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk> writes
>
>> PS Can anyone put me in contact with potential sponsors? My
>> employers have very generously paid to register the domain name, and
>> have offered to host the site for free, but sponsorship would give
>> the site: a) more independance b) the ability to pay for articles
>> time to time c) the option to hold 'live' events, eg with noted
>> speakers on the subject
>
>I wish you all the luck with potential sponsors because I have found 
>it so difficult - maybe because my site deals with civil liberties 
>issues and therefore it does not attract any sponsors. I still can't 
>afford a domain name and a proper server costs for example. But your 
>case might slightly be different.

Firstly my apologies to anyone I didn't list in my proposed committee.
It was late and I was just going off the top of my head. Yaman and
Phillip would be excellent candidates also.

Secondly, forget the sponsorship. Those sites are exactly what's needed
and when/if such a committee is formed I would expect one of more of
those sites to be taken on as the committee's site with expenses covered
by the committee.

All the sites in the world (and there are many exceptionally good ones
that deal with these matters, one of which is Yaman's) won't do the
amount of good we need done however, because they are basically
preaching to the converted. We need to address, educated those people
not yet on the net, not yet familiar with (let alone not having heard
of) the issues yet even if they've been on the net for a while.


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