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ISP Urges Citizens to Pressure Government against "Foreign Interests"

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday June 10 2014, @11:18AM   
from the That's-an-ISP dept.

lhsi writes:

http://torrentfreak.com/rise-up-against-govt-anti-piracy-plans-isp-urges-140610/

The ISP iiNet has rejected plans to introduce three-strikes and site blocking to combat piracy and have urged citizens to pressure the government and fight back against the "foreign interests" attempting to dictate Australian policy.

• Re:Word order (Score: 4, Interesting) by caffeinated bacon on Tuesday June 10 2014, @04:12PM

  by caffeinated bacon (4151) on Tuesday June 10 2014, @04:12PM (#53832)

  I'm well aware the rest of the world exists. You don't need to remind me every 5 minutes. And I'll continue assuming that unless stated otherwise articles are talking about the U.S., because the vast majority of the time *it works.*

  That's all fine, just realise that the rest of the time *it doesn't*

  It's a U.S. site, hosted in the U.S., probably by U.S. citizens, targetted at a U.S. readership. How the fuck more clear do you need?

  It's perfectly clear to me, but then I'm not the one making incorrect assumptions and then blaming someone else for being wrong.

  This is why in newspaper articles etc. they put the most important information first.

  It's also quite common to try and trick you into reading an article you may otherwise not be interested in. If it mentioned Australia right at the start you may not have bothered to read it. Seems like they won this round.

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