[Gllug] Reminder - Protest BBC iPlayer Tomorrow - Tuesday August 14

[Peter Childs]

On 14/08/07, Pete Stean <peteste at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> You realise that electronic petitions on the No10 website are utterly
> pointless... they're just a sop to the masses to make them think that their
> opinion counts (and believe me, I'm close enough to this process to
> understand how it works, and how it's viewed by Government).
>
> The only thing that really works in these situations is to be a bit
> irritating and annoying, so that they think about doing something to stop
> the letters/emails pouring in
> - Write to the relevant members of the BBC Trust (ie those that have a
> clue about technology)
> - Write to the relevant heads of Dept at the Beeb themselves
>
> That's what I've done - an online petition counts for less than nothing
>


Of course if you really want to know how to cause trouble there is a 4 day
conference now running at Heathrow on the subject, I was interested to hear
they were planning Child Care, Seminars and it all sounded extremely well
organized (Probably using a full PA and Power point knowing most things).
It seams we have now run into the "Protest" season.

Peter.

Pete
>
> On 14/08/07, Martin A. Brooks <martin at hinterlands.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 09:41 +0100, Nix wrote:
> > > On 13 Aug 2007, John Winters told this:
> > > > Has anyone succeeded in signing the petition against the BBC's
> > actions
> > > > on the PM's petition site?  I've tried twice, but the confirmation
> > > > e-mail never arrives so I can't confirm my entry.
> > >
> > > It worked for me.
> >
> > AOL
> >
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