Minutes/Campaigns Meeting/2014-05-05

Agenda

 * Graduated response and website blocking proposals (Brendan)

Attendance

 * Brendan Molloy (NC)
 * Simon Frew (NC)
 * Jarrod Bevear (Designs)
 * Rebecca Howard (Social Media)
 * Mark Gibbons (NC)
 * Tim Serong (Tas)
 * Fletcher Boyd (WA)
 * Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer (NC/Press)
 * Melanie Thomas (NC)

Graduated response and website blocking proposals

 * We need to plan a long-term campaign against the "anti-piracy" legislation.
 * Government is considering three strikes and Internet censorship at the same time.
 * They're letting us win, but we have to respond in order to win.
 * We have issued a press release: http://pirateparty.org.au/2014/05/05/theres-nothing-the-coalition-wont-put-a-price-on-internet-censorship-sponsored-by-hollywood/
 * Proposed plan:
 * Press release every day talking about:
 * Corporate capture of Government
 * Village Roadshow donations
 * Media capture of Government
 * How three strikes does not work
 * How blocking has never worked
 * How Netflix, etc, has worked
 * Generally more detail than our usual press releases.
 * Contributors to press releases should join #ppau-press
 * Change.org petition: http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/change-petition-piracy
 * Senate petition — can be presented directly to Sen George Brandis (AG)
 * We can actually force him to hear it.
 * It should get the media interested a bit
 * Has no impact beyond getting a following
 * Aim for as much cross-section support with the words
 * Guerilla marketing
 * http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/gadgets-on-the-go/is-the-piracy-crackdown-doomed-to-fail-20140505-zr4te.html
 * Malcolm Turnbull supported iiNet ruling:
 * http://mt.tbone.com.au/uncategorized/transcript-richard-glovers-political-forum-23-april-2012/#sthash.dZpdJmue.dpuf - "Throwing money away by not making it available instantly"
 * This will be quoted in PR tomorrow.
 * Use Game of Thrones as an example — people can relate to that.
 * Based on the assumption that we'll get ignored, Brendan will call the Greens, PUP, ALP, LDP, AMEP, etc, this week and push for them to block the legislation or push it to committee so we can formally argue against it.
 * PUP is likely to want to push it to a committee based on democratic necessity.
 * Greens will support us, LDP might support us.
 * AMEP are an unknown.
 * Take the "Top Gear UK delayed in AU" route with AMEP.
 * If our petition fails to get attention, we ask Sen Scott Ludlam to endorse it, making it non-partisan, and ask GetUp! EFA, ADA, etc, to support it.
 * Twitter shaped images to spam around needed.
 * Stickers with "hands off our Internet" or something similar.
 * National Council will work with Designs Officer to determine the designs.
 * If the legislation ends up attacking CSPs like YouTube it is dead in the water because Google and Facebook will fight it to the death.
 * Cost burden of censorship is high, and this government has no interest paying for it.
 * Not an exhaustive campaign, but a good 14 days worth of activity
 * We'll need to point out that they revived censorship plans at a price (see policy debarcle around the election last year)
 * Implementation is still a long way off, we want to stop this before it starts.
 * Showing how to circumvent blockades is good filler materials.
 * Wording proposals for stickers: http://pad.pirateparty.org.au/p/sticker-wording-proposals
 * (Michael) Keating to write a letter to George Brandis and Malcolm Turnbull
 * State Coordinators writing letters to prominent liberals in their states?
 * This isn't our first time fighting censorship
 * See how this will affect academics and see if they would consider getting on board.
 * We can use our YouTube post — http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Posters