Freedom Flyer November 1996 Cover

Freedom Flyer 30

the official newsletter of the
Freedom Party of Ontario

November 1996




FREEDOM PARTY LAUNCHES WORLD WIDE WEB SITE

ONTARIO (September, 1996) - Freedom Party has officially and permanently established its Internet presence by launching a site on the World Wide Web at the following address: http://www.freedomparty.org.

Thanks to the hard work of Fp Webmaster Greg Jones and Fp member Mike Davidson, Freedom Party's site already contains the party's entire library of Consent magazine, half of Fp's Freedom Flyer library, a broad selection of issue papers, and various alternate Fp publications, literature, official briefs, speeches, and media coverage. Much more is yet to come.

PARTY HISTORY

Essentially, Freedom Party's entire party history --- from January 1, 1984, when the party was founded, to the present --- is now accessible to an audience that is literally world wide.

Articles and essays from back-issues of our newsletters and publications have been left unrevised, and read exactly as when originally published in print. With hindsight and retrospect, readers will be able to judge the validity of Freedom Party's philosophy, predictions, judgements, and expectations for themselves.

WEB SIGHT

"(Freedom Party's) Website is extremely well-organized, easy to navigate through, and contain(s) a lot of real information. Congratulations!" says Jeannie Novak, founder of Kaleidospace, the first company to commercially distribute works by independant artists and musicians via the World Wide Web, in Los Angeles California.

Since speed and ease of navigation are important to most users of the Internet, Fp's Website has been carefully designed to minimize the time spent downloading documents.

As of this writing, Freedom Party's Website already contains well over 500 separate documents and articles, and will contain over 2,000 by the time the site is fully completed and up to date. For ease of access, documents and articles on site have been made accessible through several different indexes.

No doubt, the most popular and useful index will prove to be Freedom Party's Issues Index Search. This index locates every article published or reprinted by Freedom Party on a specific subject or issue. By simply pointing and clicking on a particular word in the index, a complete listing of every Fp article dealing with the selected subject or issue appears. From this listing, any article of interest can be instantly downloaded with the click of a mouse button.

EQUAL PLAYING FIELD

For Freedom Party, the Internet will act as a great equalizer, since it is a medium that overcomes virtually every physical, political, and economic obstacle inherent in the existing print and broadcast media. On this equal playing field, Freedom Party's influence can be as great as or better than any competitor's.

With the ability to compare the philosophies, policies, and records of action of the various political parties on their respective Websites, voters now have an unprecedented opportunity to get their information unfiltered by media interpretations and unfettered by the current election regulations which limit the amount of information (via paid advertising) that political parties and candidates may make available to the public.

Freedom Party's Internet presence will make it much easier for members of the media, business, and government to discover, research, and/or contact Freedom Party or its representatives and spokespersons. With our new e-mail address at Contact FPO, contact is just a click away.

FEEDBACK

No doubt, the most important aspect of our Internet presence will be the ability of our Website visitors to directly communicate with us. Because of the nature of interactivity, this may be the most unpredictable section of Fp's Website, since its content will be largely determined by the questions, comments, and criticisms directed at Freedom Party.

To accommodate this expected interchange, a future feature on our Website will be our FREEDOM FORUM, which will serve much as a "letters to the editor" section, but will also have the added potential of developing into a two-way dialogue that can prove to be an objective testing ground for Freedom Party's ideas and philosophy.

UNLIMITED POTENTIAL

Already, with existing Web technology, it is possible to make available on a Website not only textual information, but also full colour still pictures and video, audio transmissions, computer software, games, and more. All of these media forms will eventually be available on Fp's site.

We encourage our members and supporters not only to visit our site themselves, but to tell their friends and acquaintances about Fp's Website at http://www.freedomparty.org. And of course, we welcome your feedback via e-mail at Contact FPO. .




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