The Million Geek March

I was talking to my mate Glenn Vassallo this morning about the comments I made on G'DAY WORLD last night that if Doc Searls is right, and our governments side with telcos to try to regulate the hell outta the innanet, I will personally make it my mission to mobilize the people in a civil war against them.

BUT - then I realized, I don't own any guns and wouldn't know what to do with one even if I did.

So what do geeks do? March on the capital armed with laptops and ipods to throw at our oppressors?

And that's when I conceived the idea of "THE MILLION GEEK MARCH". I can see it now... a million geeks around the world, marching on their capital city, shouting

"REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED COLD.... An Old Klingon Proverb".

Is this what Doc has in mind when he says we need to get organized? Is Doc the next MLK or the geek Rosa Parks?

Anyway, are you with me? Will you march on Canberra / Washington / London / <insert capital city here> and face off with your legislators and let them know that geeks are not to be trifled with?

Are you ready to show them what a million angry geeks look like? Do you have your D&D incantations ready? Do you have your Official Prop Replica of Sauron's Ring?

Will you stand up for the innanet?

 

Comments

[Paul Montgomery]

Didn't they try that when the anti-porn legislation was going through Parliament many years ago? It didn't seem to stop anything.

[Noel Kelly]

Paul

I think this is about who you will buy access off.

If the group is small enough, and of the one type, they will limit new product releases so that they can max out the money they can suck out of you, without much new infrastructure investment.

Ie, you pay top dollar for anything beyond surfin the web and it will appear year later than it would have appear in a competative situatuon.

Think Telstra and Landlines.

Gnoll

[star trek sucks]

Revenge is a dish best served cold is a old french proverb.

Pierre Ambroise Francois Choderios de LaClos (1741-1803). He originally said it in French in his 1782 book Les Liasons Dangereuses: "La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid,"

[Cameron Reilly]

gee thanks for the lesson in French literature star trek sucks. I like Tarantino's version much better though.

[Rosanne Bersten]

My, what a very small world. I know Glenn Vassallo well, from many years ago. I'm here because I was googling x|media|lab to see if anyone mentioned forget the rules, which I'm currently consulting on... Hi!

Glenn is a good person to discuss that with because he and I were part of the last geek march on city hall in 1996 when they tried it last time (and succeeded in passing a law, I might add, but not in significantly changing the way the Internet functioned or how Australians accessed it).

[Gnoll110]

just found this telcos behaving badly post at Doc Searls weblog

Cameron, sign me up, I need the exercise!

Gnoll

[Gnoll110]

Hi all

Just found this Open Letter. I think it outlines the problems facing Telstra and the danger/conflict of interest problems that any remaining government ownership entails.

Gnoll110