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FaxYourMP and the dangers of “Boilerplate Activism”

Posted: January 28th, 2003 Comments Off

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.

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