The #Nocleanfeed (aka, #OpenInternet) movement won’t succeed in blocking the Australian Government’s filter because its leadership are captured by the dead-end Democrats and fringe libertarians with little political campaigning experience. This capture means that unfortunately the movement is receiving ill-informed political counsel from serial Democrat losers like elitist apparent drug-taker Kathryn Crosby (links to screenshots [...]
Tag Archives: No Clean Feed
Why I'm not blacking out on Australia Day
The legion of No Clean Feed activists have developed several campaign sites, one of which is The Great Australian Internet Blackout. Their call to action (in addition to writing to the Government and adding a twibbon to your Twitter profile picture) is to blackout (darken) your website on Australia Day. Their reasons for doing this [...]
No Clean Feed and Hoekstrian exaggeration
Back in June 2009, US Republican congressman Peter Hoekstra wrote on Twitter: Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House. This outrageous and ludicrous comparison comparing the adjourning of Congress to the brutally suppressed uprising in Iran, spawned a (short lived) Twitter meme: [...]
The problem of crowd-sourcing campaigns
I’ve written previously about a very successful grassroots campaign – Save VCA – and how it brought together a diverse group of people. A key element to the success of this campaign has been its coordination at an early stage. There is a very interesting discussion about the No Clean Feed movement by Mark over [...]
No Clean Feed campaign needs to drop their "censorship" obsession
There is a fair bit of soul searching that seems to be going on in the “No Clean Feed” movement of late, especially following the lack of mass-rallies in support of the campaign following the release of the Federal Government’s report into the Internet filter. UPDATE: Read the key messaging ideas for the No Clean [...]
New report shows Federal Police funding shortfall
A new report shows that the Federal Police will be short $20-31.3 million, and the shortfall may come at the expense of “other priority areas”: Mr Beale said his audit found that existing funding for the 500 new officers – announced in the Rudd government’s first budget in May last year – currently fell short [...]
Some key message ideas for #NoCleanFeed
The No Clean Feed campaign has exploded on Twitter, received extensive coverage on the tech blogs, several independent campaign sites, and has spawned its own “Glenn Beck” style domain registry controversy. Unfortunately, much of the commentary, especially from “Pirate Party” officials, is shrill and near-hysterical in its pitch. Simply put, the majority of Australians, even [...]
Filtering out the muck and the filth
The last few days have seen a real explosion of commentary and discussion, from mainstream news outlets, to the Opposition Organ and countless blogs, about the Federal Government’s proposal to have mandatory internet filtering. The debate so far is fairly stark, and can be characterised as: Pro filter: “The filter will stop deviants from accessing [...]
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