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ISP Urges Citizens to Pressure Government against "Foreign Interests"

posted by LaminatorX on Tuesday June 10 2014, @11:18AM   Printer-friendly
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.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday June 11 2014, @05:01PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday June 11 2014, @05:01PM (#54214)

    that is the reason you will see the majority of the comments being US centric, and not because SN is US turf.

    It sounds like we're arguing over idealistic vs pragmatic definitions of demographic. I've tried to spell out down to the letter why I consider Slashdot and Soylent U.S. sites, based on my observations that that's how they function. You're saying they're not U.S. sites per se because they don't explicitly declare themselves as such anywhere (which, AFAIK, is true).

    I was trying to head off the inevitable posters who feel compelled to point at other countries whenever someone makes the reasonable assumption the article is talking about the U.S., with my initial comment about SD/SN being largely U.S.-centric. Maybe I should have done it slightly more diplomatically as you say, but it seems rather silly to me to have to apologize for my pragmatically-observed viewpoint. I'm apologizing for reality? I don't control what the SN editors post as stories.

    I still haven't been convinced that we're actually in disagreement other than you taking offense at me calling a spade a spade (presumably because you think we should have no need to make such distinctions). But I'm putting a lot of words in your mouth so I'll just stop.

    I suppose I could just avoid all this drama by letting people call me ignorant every time I post. That someone feels the need to call me such does not make it true. Because we all enjoy reading the same posts over and over, right?

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