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  1. Re:18%? You're lucky... by dryeo · · Score: 1 · on Netflix To Raise Prices By 13% To 18% (cnbc.com)

    Don't worry, soon we'll have a new internet tax, I mean levy, to make up for the fact that Netflix doesn't pay its artists enough. Use over 15GBs a month, well you must be streaming and those artists need their paycheck increased.
    Don't like it, well here https://act.openmedia.org/noin...

  2. Re:They already are doing it. by dryeo · · Score: 2 · on Canada's Bell Telecommunications Company Wants Permission To Gather, Track Customer Data (www.cbc.ca)

    Well they haven't changed the law yet. If they get people agreeing, they'll use that to argue against any privacy in the new law.
    We have until Jan 11th to tell the government our side. of how the law should be updated.
    https://openmedia.org/

  3. Re:You get a VPN and you get a VPN by dryeo · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Canada's Bell Telecommunications Company Wants Permission To Gather, Track Customer Data (www.cbc.ca)

    I'll add for all the Canadians, that we have until Jan 11th to make submissions on the future of the Internet.
    One place to start is here, https://act.openmedia.org/Cana... ran by Openmedia, https://openmedia.org/

  4. Re:You get a VPN and you get a VPN by dryeo · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Canada's Bell Telecommunications Company Wants Permission To Gather, Track Customer Data (www.cbc.ca)

    I'll add for all the Canadians, that we have until Jan 11th to make submissions on the future of the Internet.
    One place to start is here, https://act.openmedia.org/Cana... ran by Openmedia, https://openmedia.org/

  5. Meanwhile, in Canada... by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 3, Informative · on Attacks on the Media Are a Threat To Democracy, Justin Trudeau Says (www.cbc.ca)

    https://openmedia.org/en/ca

  6. Re:Same shit happened for US satellite 15 years ag by Kernel+Kurtz · · Score: 1 · on What Happens When Telecom Companies Search Your Home For Piracy (vice.com)

    It's Bell here too. They're repeating a successful tactic, right down to the Anton Piller order.

    Of course, the same people who have tried (and fortunately not succeeded) to censor the internet.

    https://openmedia.org/en/huge-...

    Bell is just a really douchey company with little redeeming value to society.

  7. Facebook free internet is a walled garden by bowersox · · Score: 1 · on Facebook Has Mapped the Entire Human Population of Earth (cnbc.com)

    Facebook says it will use its map data to help bring free internet access to un-served communities. BUT the 'Free Basics' internet service only provides restricted access to certain websites!

    That prompted "65 advocacy groups from 31 countries [to] release an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg, calling then-Internet.org a 'walled garden' in which the world’s poorest people only have access to a limited set of online services approved by Facebook and local carriers," according to a Mashable report* in 2016.

    In a final shot of irony, if you want to read that open letter, it is hosted on none other than Facebook itself**:
    https://www.facebook.com/notes...

    * "Just bringing Facebook's internet to Africa won't be enough" http://mashable.com/2016/11/04...

    ** Actually, some of the 65 advocacy groups posted their own copy of the letter, and some groups such as Open Media wrote follow-up letters with specific policy recommendations for Facebook to help keep the internet open: https://openmedia.org/sites/de...

  8. Canadian? by ArcadeMan · · Score: 1 · on The Disastrous Privacy Consequences of Canada's Anti-Terrorism Bill

    We already seem to have support from the NDP, but a stronger support wouldn't hurt. If you are Canadian, please sign this: https://openmedia.org/SpyOnUs