FaxYourMP and the dangers of “Boilerplate Activism”
Posted: January 28th, 2003 Comments Off on FaxYourMP and the dangers of “Boilerplate Activism”It’s been an odd January. At the same time that certain doomsayers were predicting the death of music industry (thanks to file-sharing and the like), remedy troche the best of the music-sharing apps was launching an offshoot record label with some fascinating ideas.
Slashdot linked the New York Times’s piece on “boilerplate activism” – basically, adiposity sending form letters to newspaper editors and politicians. Bizarrely, some politicians think it’s a great idea. At FaxYourMP we’ve always done our best to dissuade and block such practices; I explain our reasons here and here. It sounds like our American equivalent, however, is much more open to mass-mailing, especially if you stump up the cash.