There has been much uproar about the conass resolution. Another case of interpreting the law to meet their own needs. Remember books and raw materials used for publishing? Now it's X fraction of the senate and the house to approve an amendment.

Anyway, the Filipino web community is abuzz with all kinds of plans. Building up on the success of the book blockade campaign, advocates are once again using the social networking sites to build up steam on the issue. The current plan is to send letters to our own House representatives and tell them how we feel about ConAss. Theoretically it should work. Reps hear the community and they listen.

Problems:
How sure are we that these representatives are checking their e-mail accounts?
How sure are we that these reps even know how to use the internet much less access their e-mails?
Are these e-mail adresses real or the ones the reps frequently use?

I fear for this campaign because I'm not sure how net savvy the reps are. I think if they frequent the net more they'd have radically different stances on issues. And there'll be probably more libel cases.

And we don't have good political "backers" this time unlike the book blockade campaign where in we had UNESCO and whole government agencies such as the National Book Development Board.

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Unrelated. Dr Free-rides amazing post on the ethics of refusing vaccinations. click!