[AusNOG] George Brandis - Be Warned

[Ben Cooper]

Add me to that list.

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Michael Keating <mkeating44 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Seconded.
>
> Without saying more, this *actually* needs action and not words. Sadly
> this isn't the right place for it.
>
> Michael Keating
>
>
> On 27 Sep 2014, at 4:05 pm, Geordie Guy <elomis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> 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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