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Canada Sleeps Through War to 'Save the Internet'
http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2007/01/17/NetNeutrality/
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Telus you didn't do it
Another wrinkle with deregulation is what happens when the carriers start to peep at what it is they're carrying, and then discriminate based on what they see. The landmark example -- the one that even advocates in the U.S. cite -- actually took place here in Canada when Telus blocked a website run by striking Telus employees called "Voices for Change."
Free speech activists were furious, but the company defended itself, saying it was acting to protect the identities of the people who chose to cross the picket lines, whose photographs were purportedly posted on the site. Regardless of their rationale, Telus cut access to another 766 totally unrelated sites by pulling the plug on the Florida server that hosted Voices for Change. [mmm smell that? it's bullshit]
Marita Moll and Leslie Shade call these and other incidents of information-tampering "good reasons for Canadians to be concerned."
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Telus was not protecting the identities of those people. Those people were most likely made to sign a WAIVER form which gives permission for the subject's photograph to be posted.
Do you want your internet to be censored?
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HOW CAN YOU HELP:
1) Send people a link to this post and tell people to read the Tyee story: Canada Sleeps Through The War To Save The Internet
2) Blog it, link it on your website, put a link to it in your organizations' newsletter etc.
3) Visit Neutrality.ca - sign the open letter to the government of Canada in support of a neutral internet
4) Make it the top story at www.Care2.com (a really interesting online news network and social issues forum with over 6 million members). By 'noting' it, you can help make this the top story on Care2. (you have to be a member to 'note.' If you're note a member of Care2, it's easy to sign up.
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This affects all of us
Is that what you want to see next time you open a page?
Insert French instead of Arabic.
If anyone feels I've missed anything important, I'll re-edit my first post.
Last edited by Misanthrope on Jan-24-2007 at 00:33
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