Live Net Townhall videocast TONIGHT!
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- 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.”
Starting at 7:30 Eastern tonight (Monday, June 8), p2pnet readers can not only see, but take part in, the first of SaveOurNet.ca’s Open Internet Town Halls.
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 is featuring the Toronto event live.
Watch it 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
Get information about other 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.
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June, 2009
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June 8th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Is there a problem with the live panel?
June 8th, 2009 at 8:40 pm
its problems at the conference center
June 8th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
I tried joining this site, but the CAPTCHA is totally fsked.
June 8th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
^^ Same same from Vancouver Island, and now the picture has gone.
Cheers!
June 8th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Yeah, ya might know, eh?!
: (
June 8th, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Its too rough to watch. Can’t take it.
I hope they fix it and stream on Wed.
June 8th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
pls pls pls get them to properly stream Ottawa, if they have broadband there that is.
June 8th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Or take questions via P2Pnet and submit them for everyone.
June 8th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Here is one for you: Court Review Says Pirate Bay Trial Judge Not Biased
Concludes his membership in several pro-copyright groups was merely an educational tool that increased his knowledge of the issues.
The Stockholm District Court reviewing the charge of bias leveled against presiding Pirate Bay trial Judge Tomas Norström has concluded that the accusation is unfounded.
via zeropaid.
June 8th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
So, Sweden is unable or unwilling to randomly select a judge for the Pirate Bay case.
Then even MORE biased judges are to decide whether the original judge was biased or not.
And now the verdict from the MORE biased judges has arrived: the original judge was NOT biased at all.
June 9th, 2009 at 8:46 am
The Pirate Party of Canada is being started now at McGill University, in Montreal. Below is the quote from the forum posting at Pirate Party International:
http://www.pp-international.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23769
McGill Pirate Party of Canada Club
Ahoy friends,
I have just registered to start a formal club at McGill Called the Pirate Party of Canada Club. It will be a while before it is official, but the wheels are now turning. The plan so far is just to get a bunch of Pirate-Sympathizers together and start scheming about how to build the party. If others start sprouting up similar organizations across the country, we will be off to a good start.
Anyone in Montreal interested in working toward the formation of the Pirate Party of Canada should let me know and we’ll schedule meetings.
Anyone passing through Montreal should let me know and we’ll start meeting each other and sharing ideas.
For anyone thinking about starting similar organizations at other schools, I’ll post the first draft of our club constitution below… it might save you some time. Please feel free to critique. Most of the document is there to satisfy the school’s guidelines. We had a little fun with the preamble but there are many improvements to be made I imagine!
I’m thinking that local clubs like these might serve as a good starting point to get PPofC off the ground. First we’ll try to establish ourselves locally in isolation; then we’ll get the communication lines running and start wikiing together the national movement; then we’ll be ready to write up the formal documents, register with the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada, and really get cracking!