6 July 2011
Seriously.
Sign this to protest
There is such a massive gap in understanding between the technically proficient and the rest of the world... thankfully kids of today grow up with the 'net and often have a clue, unlike the vast majority of people still in power - politicians, lawyers, police. Some people (highly represented in the older generation) have caught on enough to realise the challenge posed by the new way of doing things, and to try to stop it (with
increasing vigour, recently), but fortunately we have notable exceptions to oppose them - for instance, in NZ, the only member of parliament to make sense when talking about the copyright law was Gareth Hughes (the youngest MP, 29). After attending
NetHui, the inaugural NZ conference on internet issues, last week, he today
introduced himself on Reddit. He has some good answers and he's probably the first NZ politician to even look at Reddit nevermind contribute!
I never thought I'd be considering voting Green, but they're the only party with an informed stance of any kind on issues of the interwebs - you know, those ethereal pipes where we now spend half our lives.
