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

[Noel Butler]

On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 23:17 +1000, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
> <rant>
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> Because on the whole Australians are lazy who don’t get off their ass
> and just assume that ‘someone else’ will do what needs to be done...
> which is rarely true.  If this country didn’t have mandatory voting
> you’d be lucky to have a 25% turnout.
> 
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> How many of us are members of ISOC-AU, Comms Alliance or other groups?
> And if you are – attend meetings and actually get involved?
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> This industry is also the same for the most part.  When we were trying
> to get James Spenceley elected to APNIC EC – we had a pathetic
> response, and even worse trying to get Jonny Martin elected at the
> last APNIC meeting (thanks to those who did make the effort).  I am
> amazed how many people just wasted their votes because spending 5
> minutes to fill out a form was too hard.  We just don’t seem to be
> bothered being able to spend a small amount of time doing something to
> help our own situation.
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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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> So what will we be brave enough to do? Bitch a little bit on mailing
> lists? Maybe a blog here and there? Wow, lets twitter or set our
> Facebook status! That will make a load of difference.
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>  


Bloody well said!


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