Originally Posted by Fuckin Bill

I've been thinking a LOT lately about just that. I would like to form some sort of organization that can represent the industry as a whole in legal and lawmaking issues. Not some free speech thing, and not some "alliance of webmasters". Something more like what the NRA does for the gun industry.

We need a group that knows the laws, can do lobbying, and argue in front of congress. And a group that does only that. Not people who are webmasters trying to help out on the side. A real organization.

When "they" write laws about guns, you know the first thing they think about is what the NRA is going to bring up, or how many lobbyists and protestors are going to show up in front of congress. We need a real and legitimate representative body that will make them think the same things when they write something about us.

Edit: that was in reference to Tony's post above. Forgot to quote it.