I believe this would be an excellent idea, more debate is needed in order
to define what precisely should be done. perhaps national spam filters are
an idea? [something I'd love to see]
cheers
-sr
At 17:26 4/28/2001, Steve Rapaport wrote:
>Could whoever has the most Karma please post this issue
>(along with Paul's excellent reply, perhaps) to
>slashdot? I would think the extra publicity can only
>help, and there's a lot of Canadians there...
>
>-steve
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Paul Shields
> > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 6:37 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [crypto-canada] CRTC to impose national firewall?
> >
> >
> >
> > The CRTC was founded on the notion that the air waves are a
> > limited resource, and that the
> > regulation of Canadian content assures that Canadians will be
> > able to view and listen to
> > Canadian content over this limited resource.
> >
> > Can someone from the CRTC please explain to me:
> >
> > 1. how does streaming media over internet cause clutter to a
> > limited resource?
> >
> > 2. how does the existence of foreign content on foreign
> > channels hinder my receipt of
> > Canadian content on Canadian channels?
> >
> > 3. how does a telephone switch or internet router determine
> > what to filter? can this be done
> > feasibly for streaming content across hundreds or potentially
> > thousands of entry points?
> >
> > 4. how does a national firewall avoid conflict with
> > fundamental human rights and freedoms
> > when we consider that indivuals have the liberty to use
> > cryptography to mask their transmissions
> > across the firewall?
> >
> > --
> > Paul Shields
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > Robert Guerra wrote:
> >
> > > I just caught this off one of the canadian usenet groups...does
> > > anyone know more? Either way let's mobilize so this does not take
> > > place!
> > >
> > > regards
> > >
> > > robert
> > >
> > > Newsgroups: can.internet.highspeed,can.politics
> > > Subject: CRTC to impose national firewall?
> > > From: (csbh<REMOVE>@(TH+ESE)datahit.com) (Coridon Henshaw)
> > > Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:16:19 GMT
> > > NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:16:19 EDT
> > >
> > > CBC is running a bit of line noise about the 'inevitability' of the CRTC
> > > imposing a national firewall to block foriegn streaming media
> > channels from
> > > competing with domestic television and radio. When the CRTC follows
> > > through, Canada will be the second country after China to filter out
> > > 'corrupting' Internet traffic at the national level.
> > >
> > >
> > <http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2001/04/26/Consume
>rs/crtcinternet_jc_010426>
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