Yay for Tony Clement. Now if he'll just get the usage cap raised and get bank atm "convenience" charges dropped life will be good.
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/03/canadas-internet-res.html > > It always pleasantly surprises me how rational the Canadian government > and people are! > > They have resisted almost every crackpot law that benefitted > Corporations over the people in the last decade. > > They rejected changing their Copyright laws to match other countries > with draconian copyright frameworks, > and now they have rejected usage based billing as obtains in Australia > and a few other European countries. > > Way to go Canadians!! :-) > > HEre's a comment: > " It's not just that the CRTC "allowed" UBB, it's that their ruling > mandated UBB on the ISPs that bought in bulk from these > end-of-the-line telcos if Bell, Rogers et al. used that. > > cjp is right that we can't be too complacent. Government agencies are > blindly siding with business or industry collectives on the first go > and only stepping back when public outcry becomes too much. > > Look at the Copyright Board's blind support of Access Copyright! Their > demand for a $45 tariff per university student got the green-light. It > was only at the end of December that the Board stepped back from this > revolutionary change. Now the old agreement's fees continue while a > new agreement is "hammered out." > > Public opposition was vital in getting the board to step back from the > decision, but the battle isn't won. Although the number of > universities cutting the Access Copyright agreement all together > (since they already license so much content or call on their own open > source creativity) gives us hope of something different!" > > Canada is actually acting on the fact that without public diligence > and protest democracies become no different to dictatorships. Their > citizens are constantly fighting against corporate interests in their > country (and the growing evidence is that this pressure and influence > comes from outside their country). > > Here's hoping the people keep winning ^_^ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:333963 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
