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Little dictator torontosun.com/opinion/column… #cdnpoli
What the #Canada Government’s Online Harms Secrecy Debacle Says About Its Internet Regulation Plans. michaelgeist.ca/2022/04/not-an… #cdnpoli #Trudeau
If there's one lesson you'd hope governments would take away from the pandemic and the lockdown, it's that good internet policy - universal access at fair prices, managed in the public interest - is a prerequisite for ALL good policy.
Canada didn't get the memo.
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Canada didn't get the memo.
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Last week, the @CRTCeng - Canada's telecoms regulator - released its long-awaited decision on the wholesale prices paid by small, innovative ISPs to access the facilities of Canada's telecoms monopolists.
It's the worst such decision in history.
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It's the worst such decision in history.
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Ian Scott (a former teleco lobbyist that @JustinTrudeau's @liberal_party put in charge of the CRTC) shocked the nation by reversing the Commission's own policy, dramatically raising wholesale prices, signing a death-warrant for Canada's entire independent ISP sector.
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Canada's #BillC10 is a federal regulation of Canadians' online expression, from podcasts, social media and blogs to other user-generated content.
Despite claims from the ruling Liberals that opposition to this bill is Tory partisanship, this is a UNIVERSAL issue.
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Despite claims from the ruling Liberals that opposition to this bill is Tory partisanship, this is a UNIVERSAL issue.
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(If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:)
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As always, @mgeist has had the best analysis of how C-10 goes well beyond the government's claims of modest and sensible rules of the road, instead empowering the CRTC to order blocks and takedowns of otherwise legal content.
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