lets not fight each other and focus on the goal, which is to spread facts through means "we" have at our disposal. <br><br>viral videos, -> youtube -> free advertising<br>online demonstrations -> changing websites, <br>
adding billing notices -> facts campaing - low cost (lots of users just get an email bill, so even lower cost).<br>facebook campaign -> the whole time to tell your mum.<br>influence the traditional media -> how do we get the traditional media onside? to talk about facts, facts that general public can understand. <br>
<br>A few things we don't need; <br>fighting each other for 'technical' merit<br>Continuing to think this is a technical argument, technical people are on board and most know that the filtering policy is rubbish, the people we really need to influence is the general public that 'aren't aware'.<br>
<br>This is the type of messaging we are fighting;<br><br>""The evidence here in our testing and overseas, where this sort of
filter is operating in many countries, there is a negligible impact,
1/70th of the blink of an eye."<br><br>Would we respond with a reasoned technical argument e.g. <br><br>from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink">wikipedia</a>; a blink is between 300 to 400ms. So he is asserting a blink is 5ms. Considering that traffic latency between two users in a local area might be between 5 - 10 ms, the speed is significantly slower).<br>
<br>+P.S.) I do not believe this performance will scale.<br><br>or would we say<br>Filtering could be slow down your internet experience by more 300%! <br><br>(e.g. if an ISP has a central filter, potentially interstate users may be forced to go through the central filter before dove tailing back to their region). <br>
<br>------------------<br>Folks, as an industry we are fragmented, and in terms of a voting block we are heavily distributed. So we should consider.<br><br><b>-Marginal Seats and how we influence voters.<br></b>We just need to influence enough of the swing seats. I'm sure the government & opposition have their own strategies, but a small adjustment in these areas make a huge difference overall.<br>
<br><br><b>-Senate positions</b>, as an IT industry, we need to make sure any party that proposals "Censorship" should be punished in terms of seats.<br>I think we can wield a significant influence as an industry, the whole ICT industry is about 600K people, "If we can get the message" out to those people, and a large enough chuck of them and their families change their voting preferences (at least for senate) sets away from labour, i think that would make enough off a difference for powers that be to take note. <br>
<br><br>Best Regards<br> Phillip<br><br>--- <br>I send this as an individual and not representing any organisation. (yet).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Karl Auer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kauer@biplane.com.au">kauer@biplane.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 09:21 +1000, Curtis Bayne wrote:<br>
> Do what we (SONET) do: actively refuse to carry pro-filter content on<br>
> your network. If every one of us actively deny proponents to spread<br>
> their FUD<br>
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</div>The answer to darkness is not more darkness.<br>
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You can't fight censorship by censoring its proponents. It just makes<br>
you look utterly hypocritical.<br>
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Regards, K.<br>
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