[AusNOG] So, who is joining iiNet?

[Mark Walkom]

The ACS have self-declared themselves it would seem.

Regards,
Mark Walkom

Infrastructure Engineer
Campaign Monitor
email: markw at campaignmonitor.com
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On 12 June 2014 11:45, Jake Anderson <yahoo at vapourforge.com> wrote:

> 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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