Seeing Red in the Southwest: Crunch time – threat to free speech!
Today, Steve Anderson, the Save Our Net guru, reminded me that the CRTC, our federal regulator for the internet, will be issuing a landmark ruling shortly on access to the internet. Twice delayed, the...
View ArticleKeep Your ‘Net Neutral . . . .
Corporate USA is doing their damnedest to mess with your Internet for the benefit of their profit structure. You now have another chance to express your displeasure at this prospect.Via PC World...
View ArticleArt Threat: Myth-busting the Internet: The truth about throttling, congestion...
A new report challenges claims made by Canada’s largest telecommunication companies in recent disputes over Internet billing and governance. Casting An Open Net: A Leading-Edge Approach to Canada’s...
View ArticleExcited Delirium: Dutch Pass Net Neutrality Law. Where’s Ours?
Net neutrality is being implemented the world over. Where is it in Canada? . . . → Read More: Excited Delirium: Dutch Pass Net Neutrality Law. Where’s Ours?
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
This and that for your weekend reading.- Kai Nagata's post on why he quit his job as a reporter is well worth a read in full. But let's particularly note his observations which may apply just as much...
View Articleeaves.ca: The Audacity of Shaw: How Canada’s Internet just got Worse
It is really, really, really hard to believe. But as bad as internet access is in Canada, it just got worse. Yesterday, Shaw Communications, a Canadian telecommunications company and internet service...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading...- While I agree with Murray Dobbin's latest to a point, I'd think it's worth clarifying exactly what kind of fight we can and should expect from the NDP...
View ArticleArt Threat: A new generation of threats to online freedom – Report by ONI...
Worried about how the Internet is being transformed from a creative playground into a structure for dominance and control? You should be, at least that’s the warning from the OpenNet Initative in their...
View ArticleOpenMedia.ca: It’s Official: Gamers have Caught Rogers Violating Internet...
openmedia_logo.jpg CRTC’s enforcement division to handle complaint against Rogers restricting access to online services October 27, 2011— The Canadians Gamers Organization’s (CGO) current b... . . . →...
View ArticleOpenMedia.ca: The CRTC Writes Back: Rogers Must Stop P2P Throttling
It’s a true coming-of-age story. A year after reluctantly revisiting and then comprising on Usage Based Billing (UBB), the CRTC has taken to proactive measures in dealing with the misconduct of...
View ArticleThings Are Good: Declaration of Internet Freedom
Around the world governments are trying to restrain the ability of people to freely share information across the internet. Bills like SOPA in the USA and Bill C-30 in Canada to the more recent TPP all...
View ArticleOpenMedia.ca: European Parliament Opposes Restrictive Measures in Both CETA...
According to Internet freedom group European Digital Rights, provisions that would criminalize our Internet use may be dropped from the Canada-EU Trade Agreement (CETA)! While the battle isn’t... . ....
View ArticleOpenMedia.ca: Ben Klass complaint against Bell prompts CRTC to review mobile...
Several months ago, we let you know that Manitoba resident and OpenMedia community member Ben Klass had filed a complaint with Canada’s telecom policymaker, the Canadian Radio-television and...
View ArticleOpenMedia.ca: The Internet you know is about to look a whole lot different....
Back in January, three judges in Washington, D.C.’s US Court of Appeals made a game-changing legal decision in the case of Verizon v. FCC, that would allow giant telecom conglomerates to block or slow...
View ArticleOpenMedia.ca: Say No to The Internet Slow Lane
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View ArticleOpenMedia.ca: It’s Big Telecom vs. YOU
The thing we love the most about the Internet is that it’s a level playing field for free expression, economic opportunity, and innovation. But Big Telecom can’t stand this – and now they’re trying to...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: The Canadian Progressive Joins Global Net...
Today, The Canadian Progressive joins millions of websites, digital rights organizations and Internet freedom fighters demanding stronger “net neutrality” protections. The post The Canadian Progressive...
View ArticleOpenMedia.ca: Obama calls for strongest possible net neutrality rules… And...
As you may have heard, this morning, U.S. President Barack Obama came out with a decisive statement calling for the strongest possible rules to prevent slow lanes on the Internet. You can read the...
View ArticleOpenMedia.ca: Obama Administration to provide citizens with faster, cheaper...
US_LTTE_fbshare.png Internet advocates celebrate Obama’s move, and point to it as the type of action required to get Canada’s Internet rates and speeds on par with global counterparts. January 14,...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Bell’s Mobile TV Practice Violates...
In a decision likely to have implications for net neutrality, the CRTC has ruled that Bell and Vidéotron’s mobile TV practices violate the Telecommunications Act. The post Bell’s Mobile TV Practice...
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