p2pnet - rss feed: ‘Make Net neutrality an election issue!’
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Canadians should use Fact vs Fiction, the SaveOurNet.ca Coalition report officially released today, to help make Net neutrality a major issue in the upcoming election, says the organisation.
The Net is the way forward, “If we want social, cultural and economic innovation in Canada,” says national coordinator Steve Anderson.
He says Fact vs Fiction addresses common fallacies perpetuated by large telecom companies, such as:
- The industry has not needed regulation in the past and does not need it now
- Net neutrality legislation prevents corporations from making their networks more efficient
- Corporations need to manage traffic on their networks in order to prevent congestion;
- Throttling internet traffic does not affect a consumer’s enjoyment of the internet
“The Internet is an important resource that belongs to all Canadians and we deserve to be able to freely access the content we choose, without discrimination,” states Anderson.
“It’s our internet after all.”
He also notes a neutral net will benefit Canadian businesses as much as it consumers.
“By limiting service, Internet service providers can unfairly restrict the services that some businesses provide online. Maintaining a level playing field on the Internet is essential to online innovation and the future development of web services,” he states.
Says Kris Krug from Raincity Studios »»»
Building our business and becoming world leaders in building people-powered web communities would not be possible without an open Internet. Throttling could put a choke hold on the Internet and crumble made in Canada online innovators.
Says said Philip Lee, deputy director of programmes at the World Association of Christian Communication »»»
The CRTC needs to step in to ensure net neutrality as the FCC did in the United States in August.If not, Canada risks being out of step with the wider Internet community world wide.
Continuing to allow throttling or slowing down of the Internet by Internet service providers like Bell and Rogers could have dramatic unintended consequences on Internet businesses and our economy as a whole.
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October 1st, 2008 at 6:20 pm
It would be helpful to call a spade a spade.
Throttling is really censorship. OK, they block packets in order to prevent network congestion and so they call it throttling. Looking at it from the consumer’s point of view, instead of from the network corporation’s point of view, blocking packets is censorship.
With DPI you can program any kind of censorship you want. First they censored P2P. What will they censor next?
They will always call it ‘network management’ even when their intent is really censorship.
It’s those damn ‘they’ again.
HAND.