[AusNOG] So, who is joining iiNet?

Kim Davies kim at cynosure.com.au
Thu Jun 12 11:27:54 EST 2014


Quoting Burt Mascareigne on Wednesday June 11, 2014:
| Soooo.... How does the will of the people get heard?  Do I have to go and get my pitchfork?

On one side of this issue you have a co-ordinated industry that is
actively trying to effect change and has shown an unwillingness to give
up.

On the other side you have a group that is generally content to mind
their own business, only pipes up in a semi-coordinated fashion for a
short spell in opposition, and then goes back to their knitting.

I'd suggest to make inroads this community may want to do more of the
former than the latter. Even if it is just to maintain equilibrium to
guard the status quo, the notion that you just need to fight back with a
letter or a petition sporadically is probably naive.

Where is the competing tension in legislators' minds that there is an
open Internet that needs to be preserved in order to bring its immense
societal benefits? Where is the constant pressure from the industry
to drive the discussion in the opposite direction, pushing for legal
frameworks that afford more protections to ISPs rather than less?
Wouldn't it be good not to be on the back foot all the time?

Don't reach for a pitchfork. Change the playing field.

kim



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