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fajrdrakoAnother distressing bit of news, which I got from
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dewline's link.Funny: a few years ago I'd hear about how the Net is censored in China. Now China is opening up and Canada is trying to close down.
How can anyone think this is good for Canadians?
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Date: 2008-11-27 06:39 pm (UTC)I knew the part about the cost of cellphones here... I worked for Bell for a while, they try to make it sound the other way around that the US is more expensive... SO NOT true!
And they'd better not even try to monitor what I download...
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Date: 2008-11-27 07:13 pm (UTC)Remember when mail was snail mail and there were laws to keep it private? You couldn't read other people's mail? Now that it can all be done electronically, they seem to think our privacy is their stomping grounds.
Retrograde progress.
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Date: 2008-11-27 08:03 pm (UTC)I know some of the laws we have our good.. It's that some of them go too far...
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Date: 2008-11-28 01:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-27 07:05 pm (UTC)Really? That's-
actually left me speechless...
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Date: 2008-11-27 07:09 pm (UTC)'Nuff said.
[Grump]
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Date: 2008-11-27 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-28 01:06 am (UTC)We shall continue to fight the good fight... [Sigh]
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Date: 2008-11-27 08:37 pm (UTC)http://www.michaelgeist.ca/
He's become the spokesperson and spearhead of the Fair Copyright and Net Neutrality battle for Canada.
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Date: 2008-11-27 08:57 pm (UTC)[Love your icon!]
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Date: 2008-11-27 09:06 pm (UTC)The icon was made for me by Graculus. It seems to be appropriate to most of my life so it's my default. She's who I want to be when I grow up ;-)
Speaking as a Once a Thief fan...
Date: 2008-11-28 12:16 am (UTC)Re: Speaking as a Once a Thief fan...
Date: 2008-11-28 12:28 am (UTC)Once a Thief was just so good and The Director was a woman after my own heart. Too bad it was only one season :-(
Re: Speaking as a Once a Thief fan...
Date: 2008-11-28 01:04 am (UTC)Re: Speaking as a Once a Thief fan...
Date: 2008-11-28 04:10 pm (UTC)Re: Speaking as a Once a Thief fan...
Date: 2008-11-28 04:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-28 03:37 am (UTC)As for the cell-phone issues here, it is precisely because of them that I refuse to own a cell-phone. Elsewhere on LJ, I casually mentioned the terms Rogers/Fido was trying to foist on us for obtaining an Apple iPhone, one American response I got was flabbergasted at the very idea of a three-year cell contract. (Need more be said?)
I am hoping that some of these problems go away when new cell-phone providers are scheduled to open next year, but the current economic *mess* will not help (worse, it may play right into the hands of the monopolists).
We need antitrust legislation. Better still, we need to give the current regime the heave-ho, as they will not pass the legislation we need; instead, they would rather pass laws that trample our freedoms into the mud. Humbug.
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Date: 2008-11-28 02:37 pm (UTC)