Ringtones As Protest In Phillipines

SMS advocacy group TXTpower.org has put up a ringtone mixed from “two sound files of excerpts of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo‘s alleged “Hello Garci” conversation purportedly with Comelec Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano”…Garcillano is the elections commissioner and Macapagal-Arroyo is the President of the Phillipines, so allegations of electoral fraud are flying around.
“The ringtones express the widespread disgust over (Ms Arroyo’s) obvious poll fraud. She should fear an entire nation mocking her through ringtones and text jokes,” Anthony Cruz, one of the officials of TxtPower, said Friday.
It’s an interesting use of mobile content as political protest…and I like the casual mixing of English and Filipino that occurs everywhere… (via Ringtonia via Inq7.net)

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