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Net activism: Stopping corporate media in its tracks

fed up | 23.03.2003 04:27

Truth strikes back. Join the CNN and White House net-strikes this weekend. Let's show our "overwhelming" support for corporate media and encourage more anti-war coverage. Here's a cool tool to help anyone become a web activist.

Show your "support" for corporate media by continuously monitoring their websites for anti-war coverage. See them get all excited as their hit counts soar. They'll be so pleased (if their servers can keep up) and so will you, knowing you are doing your patriotic share to "help" the war effort and show your loyalty by always being there for them.

* Keep tabs on corporate media coverage (or lack of it).
* Increase the popularity of "anti-war" and "protest" as search words.
* Give them a lot of hits. This is great for their ratings if their servers can take it.

The search page of the selected site will reload every 10 seconds in a hidden frame as long as you leave this window open. If you have a high-speed connection you can monitor multiple sites simultaneously by opening this page in several windows.

This tool uses ordinary HTML and JavaScript and will work on your own computer or any website. Download a copy of this webpage (address above) to your computer, unzip it, and click on index.htm to bring it up in your browser (you must be on line). No installation is required - it's an ordinary web page. This nice little gizmo will automatically do a search on CNN (or the White House and other sites) for "anti-war protest" and will repeat it every ten seconds.

This may not seem like much, but 3000 people with this page open in just one window would give them a million page views per hour.

Sure, you can just use the page at the above address, but web sites can easily be hacked down so it's really better to get your own copy. If you have your own website, consider posting a copy there.

Also, here are some other net activism pages to check out:

 http://bristol.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=4259&group=webcast
 http://nowar.julez-edward.be/
 http://mathaba.net/home

fed up
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