I'll take a helping of freedom to go with my democracy, please...

[fajrdrako]

Another distressing bit of news, which I got from 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?

Comments

[frankiesblue.livejournal.com]

Yeah um wow...

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...

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

OMG!

Really? That's-
actually left me speechless...

[raissad.livejournal.com]

Condolences. *Shakes head*

[obelix]

A lot of people have been trying to fight for net neutrality and the best way to keep informed and find out what we can do is to go here:

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/

He's become the spokesperson and spearhead of the Fair Copyright and Net Neutrality battle for Canada.

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

Except for the report about "twitter", none of this is news to me. It was because of stuff like this that I was so hoping to get rid of Harper back in October (what a waste of money that election was!).

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.