Repost from the same discussion we are having on the Australian Web Industry Association list: Just had a chat with a guy at my Uncle's (Sentator Chris Ellison) office about people to target an possible actions to take. The following are the opposition ministers that would be worth talking to (F2F if possible)
Nick Minchin (SA) - Shadow for the digital economy Eric Betts (Tas) - Shadow Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Steven Troboe - Shadow Minister for Small Business, Tourism and the Arts It might be worth trying to talk to Julia Bishop and Joe Hockey Nick Xenophon would also be a good person to target, as he like to block things :) We should also as an association contact WAIA, and chat to them about their stance - and also to get some actual concrete numbers - I'm sure they will know people how were involved in the research that has been done. Finally, getting in contact with people involved in the roll outs in the UK, NZ etc to find out what speed implications they have (They have an optional opt-in system though). I guess it comes down to how far we as an association we want to take it. End of the day, petitions and letters are good, but directly contacting politicians with some real information is the only way to make a change. Oh, and the other thing he said was talk to the big players (News Limited, Fairfax etc) and find out how it will impact they business - basically the more impact we can show to Australian business the stronger our argument will be... ---------------------------------------------- Myles Eftos Mobile: +61-409-293-183 MadPilot Productions URL: http://www.madpilot.com.au <http://www.madpilot.com.au/> Phone: +618-6424-8234 Fax: +618-9467-6289 Try our time tracking system: 88 Miles! http://www.88miles.net <http://www.88miles.net/> _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pat Allan Sent: Monday, 27 October 2008 18:03 To: [email protected] Subject: [SiliconBeach] Re: ISP filtering On 27/10/2008, at 1:06 PM, Elias Bizannes wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Michael Specht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why not get behind the existing efforts? http://nocleanfeed.com/ http://petitions.takingitglobal.org/oznetcensorship I agree and think we should support the EFA's efforts. However nocleanfeed's petition links to the one above, and in my eyes, that's not an effective one to get the point across. It needs to be state based to indicate that voters will threaten their representatives position in the future, rather than a lump all. For a petition to mean anything, its needs to be targeted. Depends what you want it to mean. Going by your draft, your focus was very much on voting implications for those who support the bill. The one linked above is a more generic 'We really _really_ don't like this.'. Value in both, definitely, but not convinced another petition is going to help that much. Is it worth focusing on other avenues? Perhaps making it clear to the ISPs that they'll lose customers if they sign up on the trial (mind you, it sounds like Internode and iiNet aren't fans of Conroy already - and they're probably the third and fourth biggest ISPs after Telstra and Optus). Or spend the time getting those short video clips happening? There's a bit of grass-network concern happening on this list, on Twitter, etc (the activity today has been awesome) - but we're deep tech people. How do we draw non-technical minded people in, without seeming too radical? Also, another issue to raise in letters, petitions, meetings etc: this filter will slow down the net. The trials have shown that. And this will severely impact the tech businesses here. Quoting Richard Florida, who in turn is paraphrasing Joel Mokyr: Technical creativity has tended to rise and then fade dramatically at various times in various cultures, when social and economic institutions turn rigid and act against it. Pushing the business side of things will help to show it's not just a civil rights issue. I'm sure you business-minded people can do a better job than me :) -- Pat --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
