Internet Town Hall – tonight!
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Until now, Canada’s Internet has been an open network, and a level playing field for free speech, innovation, and free market competition. All that is now under threat, says CIPPIC, the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic.
“A handful of companies are threatening to change the way Canada’s Internet works,” it says.
“They want to replace the open network Canadians enjoy today with a discriminatory or ‘gatekeeper network’ where they decide which content and services get the fastest access to our homes.”
These companies have been caught throttling or slowing Internet traffic to businesses and consumers; blocking access to web sites that criticized them; and, crippling consumer devices and applications,” says CIPPIC, stating:
“This threatens Canada’s free speech and economic competitiveness.”
Net Neutrality equals a cyberspace highway which is, as the Wikipedia describes it, “free of restrictions on content, sites, or platforms, on the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and on the modes of communication allowed, as well as one where communication is not unreasonably degraded by other communication streams.”
With that in the wings, Monday, June 8, will see the kickoff for SaveOurNet.ca’s Open Internet Town Halls running in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver.
The idea is to spark discussions about the future of the Internet.
p2pnet, together with the Real News Network, rabble.ca, TheTyee.ca, Beyond Robson, StraightGoods, The Georgia Straight and MichaelGeist.ca will feature the Toronto event live starting at 7:30 pm Eastern.
Watch it live and join in the conversation through online chat.
Speakers include:
- Mark Surman – executive director, Mozilla Foundation
- Olivia Chow – Member of Parliament (NDP)
- Raymi the Minx of raymitheminx.com
- Sass of zucket.com
- Rocky Gaudrault – CEO, Teksavvy Solutions
- Derek Blackadder – CUPE national representative
- Steve Anderson – co-founder, SaveOurNet.ca
Special Guests:
* Jesse Brown – Search Engine
* David Skinner – communications professor, York University
* Kim Elliot – Rabble.ca
* Mark Kuznicki – remarkk consultant, Dan O’Brien – ACTRA
* Ben Lewis – Canadian Federation of Students
* Wayne Mcphail – w8nc
If you want to attend in person, reserve your spot here: http://saveournet.ca/toronto
Get information about upcoming Town Hall events in Ottawa and Vancouver here: http://saveournet.ca/townhall
The panel below will go live from Toronto at 7:30 pm.
Be there —- virtually 
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