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

[Skeeve Stevens]

I'm just making a suggestion... I'm advocating anything...  I am sure we can come up with something drastic.

No pain no gain though.... and with enough notice... I am sure that most customers would not have an issue... especially if many ISP's did it.

What about blackholing all .gov.au's? ;-)


...Skeeve

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From: Jay Mitchell [mailto:jay at miscreant.org]
Sent: Wednesday, 7 July 2010 11:40 PM
To: Skeeve Stevens; ausnog at ausnog.net
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: RE: [AusNOG] Australian Censorship program to go ahead - Gillard supports a the great firewall

In my imaginary anti-authoritarian world I go to when I listen to my punk collection, sure I can imagine this :) 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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eintellego Pty Ltd - The Networking Specialists
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Phone: 1300 753 383, Fax: (+612) 8572 9954
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