[AusNOG] George Brandis - Be Warned

[Geordie Guy]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Skeeve Stevens <
skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:

> <rant>
>
> George Brandis - I hope you read this and understand.
>
> The following article is an example of what we, the tech industry WILL do
> if you persist on trying to control the Internet, in Australia or anywhere
> else.
>
>
LOL

Prove it.

The state of the Australian network operator community is such that Brandis
is quite sure, if he has an IQ above room temperature, that he can do
literally anything he likes to the community and industry and in response
he'll get someone who is community and society minded issuing a call to
arms to the AusNOG list that will be met with between 1 and 3 people
complaining that the email doesn't contain a traceroute pertaining to a
specific, current routing issue where someone going via a peer is getting a
packet or two dropped and want to know if other people using the same
peering have the same problem.

Seriously.

If you want to issue threats to politicians who are expediting the ISP and
carrier industry into a collection of Australian businesses whose primary
business models are issuing copyright infringement notices, wholesale
aggregating and delivering user metadata and policing what websites their
customers can access in the lens of current government policy about what
people should do, you might want to check that the industry gives a
proverbial.

Every attempt at engaging the AusNOG community to care about these issues
falls on the deaf ears of operators that just want to get through their
shift and have convinced themselves that other people will sort it out if
there's a genuine problem.

Skeeve if you ever want to work with someone to oppose this sort of stuff
contact me directly.  There's two of us, we can find more offlist.
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