Even Flow..

Last weekend I went to Amsterdam. There I met some friends of a good friend of mine and noticed that those people know a lot of people I also know. Here in the Netherlands, the group of nerds and hackers isn't very big, I would guess a couple of hundred people and a lot of those people know each other. A lot of these people work at ISPs or know people that work at ISPs.
Some years ago I visited the hacker festival "What the Hack" and also saw a lot of people from the Dutch scene. At the festival, next to all the tech talk, there were a lot of lectures on social and political topics.
What wonders me sometimes is that there isn't some hacker union or something like that, that is able to put pressure in politics. Big corporations have big lobby groups and those are well used, but why isn't this done by hackers? Money equals power, but nowadays, in our online-centered society, bandwith, connectivity and uptime also equal power. I'm not in favor of abusing power to get things done, but its interesting to see that apparently cooperations use certain methods to get things done or to put pressure in the right places, but that these methods aren't used by hackers with power.