[AusNOG] Consultation on s313(3) use

[Mark Newton]

Successful lobbying uses the politicians' ideology to create reasons to do what the lobbyist is in favor of.

For example, there are plenty of "classic liberal" reasons, which plenty of Liberal MPs will sympathize with, to do things that are in the best interests of the Internet industry and Internet users.

There are also plenty of "dry Liberal" small-government reasons supporting exactly the same outcomes.

And there are plenty of "big society" reasons which will appeal to ALP MPs to do precisely the same things.

All three sets of arguments can be made at the same time, with each one persuading a different subset of people about the defensiveness and rhetorical safety of making the same decisions that favor our aims.

This industry has been culturally incapable of providing reasons to support its aims that are any more complicated or nuanced than, "It is correct." And even then, there is very little in the way of follow-up: the industry can't hold an argument for longer than three months, and has been singularly absent at promoting positions in the face of political opposition for ten years -- which is, in truth, actually required.

Zero MPs are even remotely interested in correctness. So arguments based on educating them about what the correct answer is will universally fail, no matter who is in power.

Everyone here should know this, because it's all any of you have ever known, because you've not had the nous to mount a sophisticated argument about anything, and have consequently always failed in the same way.  

   - mark

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Tiny screen, imaginary keyboard.


> On 29 Apr 2016, at 19:56, Peter Tiggerdine <ptiggerdine at gmail.com> wrote:
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> This is probably drifting into the off-topic but ideology trumps money as does religion.
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> All the money in the world wouldn't persuade the government to make good decision because they believe that national security is more important and civil liberties and right to privacy. So irrespective of the education and lobbying you're going to struggle to change their belief.
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> The government knows that while it can blindside the public though miss-education, they can do anything. Hence my original point.
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> Yes you are right on the mark *pun intended* that the carriers and associated organisations need to apply more pressure but going up against ideology is a waste of time.
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> Regards,
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> Peter Tiggerdine
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>> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:
>> On Apr 29, 2016, at 1:47 PM, Peter Tiggerdine <ptiggerdine at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > education is the key. The problem with the government is that it doesn't want to be educated because of ideology.
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>> > Uneducatable (probably made up word, but you get the drift) people are the true definition of stupid. And lets face it government is where all these types seem to congregate the most.
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>> Money wins against education hands-down.
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>> The belief that politicians would do the right thing, if only they knew enough about the subject matter to make well-reasoned decisions, is absurd, completely unsupported by empirical evidence.
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>> There are very well-organized and well-funded organizations lobbying in favor of control of the internet. The Internet community fails time and time again because it has not learned enough lessons from previous defeats to become well-organized and well-funded enough to make its counter-case effectively.
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>> The government knows it can marginalize and destroy internet industry participants with no blowback whatsoever. As long as that remains true, ISPs and users will continue to be outmaneuvered.
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>>    - mark
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