[AusNOG] Soul Patts chief takes aim at TPG founder Michael Malone | The Australian

[Matthew Scutter]

I'm still reeling that a journalist for a site behind a paywall is giving
us advice on bypassing paywalls on their competitor's site, on a public
list.

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Grahame Lynch <
grahamelynch at commsdaymail.com> wrote:

> Feel free to blitz away at me but if people want to participate in
> discussions about public policy that involve recourse (and by definition,
> links) to the findings and reports of paid journalists who, umm, you know,
> require payments for their work, then what is the problem with actually
> paying to access their sites? It is relatively cheap and there are only a
> handful of paywalled publications (Aus, SMH, AFR) out there to link to. And
> if you have such an issue with it, well as Ben has shown, the hacks are
> easy. But BANNING links to things that require payment? Geez....
>
> Most people here would think nothing of dropping a few bucks on other
> types of cloud services that help them with their jobs.
>
> On 27 March 2015 at 08:55, Ben Grubb <bgrubb at smh.com.au> wrote:
>
>> And if that doesn't work, going to the twitter post and clicking the link
>> should work.
>>
>> On 27 March 2015 at 12:53, Ben Grubb <bgrubb at smh.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> This link should work
>>>
>>> https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB4QqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.com.au%2Fnational-affairs%2Fmalcolm-turnbull-targets-net-pirates-in-new-bill%2Fstory-fn59niix-1227280265638&ei=AaIUVduEM8fBmAWyroHQDQ&usg=AFQjCNGwgd2Mlqh5Vxl8-jBH-7qnppSEhA&sig2=bk0ZksZpsRJqep9KYl065Q
>>>
>>> Yay for porous paywalls
>>>
>>> On 27 March 2015 at 12:51, Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 27/03/2015 08:56, Peter Lawler wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Some light relief
>>>>
>>>> https://twitter.com/mmalone26/status/581226653868638208
>>>>
>>>> "Yay I founded TPG in my spare time."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/companies/soul-patts-chief-takes-aim-at-tpg-founder-michael-malone/story-fn91v9q3-1227280368484
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>>>> I wish ppl would STOP sending links to paywalls on this list..
>>>>
>>>> Hey David, you awake? maybe we need a change to the charter :)
>>>>
>>>>
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