[AusNOG] So, who is joining iiNet?

[Jake Anderson]

Who is the "internet lobbyist company" in Australia?

On 12/06/14 11:27, Kim Davies wrote:
> 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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