This is one of the few 'political freedom' issues that I believe actually has some significant and near threat. I find it hard to get excited about many freedom issues but when this one came to the forefront about a year ago in the US, I spent a lot of time learning about it.
It's worth investing a little time understanding what it is about and how it has very real and practical ramifications to all of us. Seeing how upset some people on this list became when Shaw started exercising their ToS rights with respect to port 25, I can only imagine how much people on this list will care when the sites they want to go to become slow and sluggish or unreachable because the toll has not been paid. My 2 cents... Jon --- Sent from the road... -----Original Message----- From: bogi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, Jun 23, 2007 11:25 am Subject: [clug-talk] http://www.neutrality.ca/ To: CLUG General <[email protected]>Reply-To: CLUG General <[email protected]> The issue at hand is, weather we can continue to roam the internet free of barriers, as first class netizens, or will we be relegated to second class netizenship ... If net was no longer neutral, than you can expect , for example, fees to access services like e-mail, or certain websites, and the fees would be controlled by say, your access provider, so accessing some compeditors website would cost you money, everytime. This is what is being pushed for by ... and i think , this should be resisted appropriately. We pay connection fees, we don't need extra limitations imposed on us regarding where we go on the net. Let's fill the petition , also check the associated blogs and articles related to the matter. http://www.neutrality.ca/ Cheers Szemir _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
