[ILUG] ireland offline 'strike'

[Noel Carroll]

Waider wrote:
I have a small, perhaps impolite question about this. If
IrelandOffline is advocating that people don't use their dialups and
the like, who exactly /that matters a damn/ is going to see the
protest pages? Wouldn't it be a better idea to get people to lobby
their representatives in an attempt to get the ODTR some actual
legislative/financial clout?

Waider. E0.02 or something.

<Noel>
Right on Waider!!  My thoughts exactely.  I support IrlOffline too but they
spend much too much time arsing around and not enough doing the things that
count.  Things that count in my book are lobbying and applying political
pressure.  If you want politicians to kick an issue into touch then you have
to make them sit up and listen and the only way to do that is to prove you
either have enough money or votes to make a difference.  Thats what
IrlOffline need to realise - instead of blabbering on with this strike
bollox.  They'd be better off getting the sites they want to support them to
join them in a voting pact and make that a publicised thing.  That might
have a bit more success, maybe not a lot, but a bit more I'd say than a
silly one day strike that nobody who matters is really going to notice or
react to.  The clincher is that, if they didn't make a difference when they
had Mary O'Rourke and Eircom in the one room with their disgruntled
membership, how do they think this is going to improve the situation one
bit?   

Noel

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