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>The thing I find so disconcerting is just how little expertise seems to be present in the legislative space around tech in Australia There is expertise. Our
by AndrewDavis 8y ago
>The thing I find so disconcerting is just how little expertise seems to be present in the legislative space around tech in Australia
There is expertise. Our Prime Minister knows tech, Turnbull is a millionaire from seeing the potential of the internet in the 90s and heavily invested in an ISP and took on role of chairman. Half a decade later he'd turned 500k into $50 million when Ozemail was acquired.
The policies aren't because of incompetence, they're actively malicious against the publics best interest in favour of the elite set to make bank.
- thundergolfer 8y agoWhile Turnbull can at least claim entrepreneurial success in the tech space, is he not an exception? I can't think of another prominent politician with a background in computer science, IT, or even technology entrepreneurship.
- stephen_g 8y agoI don't believe Turnbull had anything to do with the technical side of Ozemail (which was only ever a dial-up network and mail provider), he was just on the business side. Clearly when he became the communications minister I think he demonstrated that while he was willing to ignore experts and destroy things maliciously for political gain, I believe he also demonstrated he didn't actually understand recent tech or broadband networks much at all through a lot of it either. There were things that I think he actually believed that were rubbish.