Recently, my office has received "virus-style" e-mails designed to get people to sign the petition against raod pricing on the Downing Street website. It claims that "750,000 signatures are required for the government to ... take any notice" and contained several apocalyptic predictions about cost and the possibility of getting speeding tickets on the basis of your tracked position.
There was even a Y!A question with the same text:
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Auw9_cti9dmurl92jjbCYNBJBgx.?qid=20070208023146AAx26Pe
As a result, the petition has now been signed over one million times (50 times as many as would like to scrap ID cards, 250 times the number calling for a referendum on the EU)
Now, I'm against installing tracking devices for road pricing (I think there are better, cheaper, simpler ways) - but I'm even more against being manipulated in this way by what I feel is a very clever and insidious marketing campaign.
Am I alone in feeling used?
2007-02-12
01:18:28
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