[AusNOG] Australian Censorship program to go ahead - Gillard supports a the great firewall

[Jay Mitchell]

In my imaginary anti-authoritarian world I go to when I listen to my punk
collection, sure I can imagine this J In my day (and let's face, it night)
job I can't even begin to imagine doing this.

 

As a consumer if my ISP did this, they'd be hearing from me and it wouldn't
be pretty.

 

As a network operator, the financial and legal ramifications of an action
such as this don't bear thinking about.

 

Let's think about this from another angle. What do other industries do when
they want politicians to take or desist from a course of action? They lobby.
Now lobbying doesn't need to be about cash (unless you're the tobacco/gun
toting kind of folk). What about finding MP's sympathetic to your cause and
using them to voice your opinion/ideas/concerns? By the people for the
people?

 

Just my $0.05 ;)

 

 

From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Skeeve Stevens
Sent: Wednesday, 7 July 2010 11:17 PM
To: Bevan Slattery; Phillip Grasso; ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Australian Censorship program to go ahead - Gillard
supports a the great firewall

 

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Imagine if a LOT of ISP's agreed on an 'Internet Black Out Day' - where we
gave a couple of weeks notice and then for a whole day or just hours,
shutdown ALL user connectivity - that would be front page everywhere...  and
let people know WHY - because the government was wanting to censor the
internet.  If you affected tens of thousands of people for a period it would
turn a lot of people against the government and create a lot of awareness.
But do you think we would/could be brave enough to take such a drastic
action? Doubtful.... We're not that brave enough to get out of our comfort
zone - we have shareholders and boards and customers we can't possibly
upset.  I doubt too many people would leave if they understood why we did
it.  Since when was something worth fighting for without some cost?


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That said, I love you all - peace out ;-)

 

...Skeeve

 

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Skeeve Stevens, CEO/Technical Director

eintellego Pty Ltd - The Networking Specialists

skeeve at eintellego.net / www.eintellego.net

Phone: 1300 753 383, Fax: (+612) 8572 9954

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