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The #Nocleanfeed campaign, DoS and political nous

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 apparent drug-taker Kathryn Crosby and Geordie Guy.
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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 are:

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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:
In response, Twitter [...]

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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 at [...]

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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 Feed [...]

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