ASX-listed cloud communications and telco services company Comms Group has acquired Melbourne-based Binary Networks for $1.8 million.
Binary Networks provides telco services to small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) via a Layer-2 data network with points of presence in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. It also operates a fixed wireless service in the rural Queensland town of Goondiwindi.
Binary also has engineering capabilities with data networks, advanced voice services and internet protocol (IP).
Comms Group also expands its head office headcount and bolsters its sales capabilities with the addition of Binary Networks’ staff. Binary founder Michael Diamond also joined Comms Group as head of systems and systems integration.
Disability Studies Scholars Critique the âAutism Industrial Complexâ
Scholars argue that a business model has developed that exploits autism to sell coercive interventions.
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Disability Studies scholars Alicia A. Broderick and Robin Roscigno argue that popular metaphors that portray autism as an enemy, alien, epidemic contagion, or otherwise dangerous serve to create a market for what they term the âAutism Industrial Complex.â
Broderick and Roscigno see these notions of autism as suggesting invasive behavioral techniques as the only plausible response. The researchers describe the business logic and surrounding discourses that legitimize coercive bodily control (and other forms of violence) over those diagnosed with autism.