[LINK] Compulsory disclosure of privacy breaches

[Glen Turner]

On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 09:55 +0000, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
> You make some fair points re supposed net neutrality legislation here in
> Australia, Richard. Basically as you say, we don't need it, and therefore
> the issue has failed to gain traction in Australia. Fred, would you agree?

You might also view the lack of interest as being partly due to the lack
of massive content sites located in Australia.  Without those sites an
argument about telco discrimination between content providers fails to
get much traction.

Also, we haven't had any ISPs try it on here, partly become politics
plays differently here.  Let's say ISP T gives preference to content
providers on ISP T's network.  Now the content providers in Australia
are either government-owned or are owned by media proprietors M, P or F.
M, P, F all have a fairly direct line to a prime minister with a deep
interest in the continuing support of those media proprietors.  ISP T
is in deep political trouble, since it has now provoked forthcoming
regulation which it can't control.