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| 2008-11-19 16:59 |
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Say NO to Corporate Control
Stop the Throttlers!
The Canadian Radio-television Communications Commission (CRTC) is expected to soon issue a landmark decision on whether Bell and other big telecoms can continue their traffic-shaping practices that have been throttling consumers' equal access to the Internet.
Canadians need to make it clear to the CRTC that it must act in the public interest and ensure Net Neutrality.
Until now, Canada's Internet has been an open network -- and a level playing field for free speech, innovation, and free market competition. All that is now under threat.
A handful of companies are threatening to change the way Canada's Internet works. They want to replace the open network Canadians enjoy today with a discriminatory or "gatekeeper network" -- where they decide which content and services get the fastest access to our homes.
These companies have been caught:
- throttling or slowing Internet traffic to businesses and consumers;
- blocking access to web sites that criticized them;
- crippling consumer devices and applications.
This threatens Canada's free speech and economic competitiveness.
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/crtc_throttle
http://www.saveournet.ca/content/take-action
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| 2008-05-03 12:13 |
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*moan* I'm going to be without internet for a while. There's something wrong with my computer so I'm taking it in to be serviced (dirty!). Luckily, I bought a service plan when I purchased my computer or I'd be up shit creek. Damn thing is just over a year old. I hope it doesn't take too long to figure out what's wrong and fix it.
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| 2007-10-09 07:34 |
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You know it's just not going to be a good day when you sit down on a wet bus seat first thing in the morning.
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| 2007-09-23 12:55 |
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So I've decided that I'm not going to migrate my stuff over from lj. Nothing really earth shattering over on it any way. I'm not an overly chatty person so I'm going to be using this journal to mostly keep track of stories that I'm reading. Occasionally I'll put up some rl things but as I live a rather steady life nothing much of interest happens to me.
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| 2007-08-22 18:55 |
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I've got to get off my ass and get stuff migrated from LJ. I'm not feeling techno-savy right now. Maybe this weekend.
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