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Holiday Boycott Called for
Hewlett Packard's Products
Boca Raton: October 27, 2008
Child AbuseWatch.net (CAN) (www.abusewatch.net)
is calling today for the boycott of Hewlett Packard
products for the holiday season. Here’s why.
Hewlett Packard’s TV commercial for
the TouchSmart TV uses a sound track entitled “Do
you wanna touch…yeah,” composed by convicted child
sex abuser Gary Glitter who released the hit in
1973.
Glitter was in the news recently
having been released from a Thai jail for having sex
with children. He is a convicted pedophile in the
United Kingdom.
In addition to the negative publicity
that the use of Glitter’s song in the commercial
brings to the sphere of child sexual abuse, Glitter
is believed to garner royalties from all of his hits
including this one.
The “Do you wanna touch…yeah,”
version used in the HP commercial is a cover of the
original by Joan Jett she recorded in 1982.
On October 14th, 2008,
Child AbuseWatch.net wrote to the Mark Hurd, CEO of
Hewlett Packard and HP’s board of directors. CAN did
so to bring to HP’s management attention the facts
that surround the TV commercial's soundtrack. The
goal was to encourage HP to revise or remove the ad
from airplay due to the poor taste and judgment by
HP that using the track reflects in the face of our
national child sexual abuse crisis. A public apology
was also requested.
See and hear the ad
here.
(1)
See
and hear Glitter's
original
(2) Read about Glitter
here in this London Sunday Times article: ‘Gary
Glitter - mad, bad or just dangerous to know?’
(3)
HP has not responded to CAN nor have
they made any public comment about revising the
commercial. The commercial was still running on
October 26.
As a result Child AbuseWatch.net is
launching a campaign today “Boycott Hewlett
Packard” calling for the boycotting of all HP
products until this matter is resolved or until the
end of the year. A release is being sent nationally
to all media outlets, news wires and child advocacy
groups.
About:
AbuseWatch.net is a national child abuse prevention
organization (www.abusewatch.net)
which provides child abuse prevention resources to
the general public, Law Enforcement and thousands of
Guardian ad Litem and Court Appointed Special
Advocates nationwide. Contact:
info@abusewatch.net.
Evin Daly, Director (561) 350 5533. Mr. Daly is also
the publisher of
the
ButlerReport.com
a daily news update.
Hewlett-Packard Company,
3000 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1185 USA
Phone: (650) 857-1501.
www.hp.com.
Mark Hurd, CEO. HP Board email address:
bod@hp.com
Reference:
(1) Hewlett Packard Commercial link:
http://h30418.www3.hp.com/index.jsp
If commercial is removed on this link please check
youtube.com
(2) Glitter's Original song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF0W5KBkpO8
(3) Glitter Times
article:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/minette_marrin/article4597374.ece?Submitted=true
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