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Canadian Government Rejects Net Neutrality Rules
An anonymous reader writes "The Canadian Press reports that the Canadian government appears ready to reject net neutrality legislation, instead heeding the arguments of large telecommunications companies . Michael Geist has posted transcripts of the documents which can be summarized as the government thinks that blocking or prioritizing content is acceptable, it knows that this runs counter to recommended policy, and it doesn't care because it plans to the leave the issue to the dominant telecommunications providers."
Once again our government sticks to the free market fantasy that their platform is based on. Let the market figure it out. What a terrible idea. A free market only works in an absolutely free market, as in, government pays for nothing, which obviously won't work, so why try and have it half assed like they are trying to do. Regulation is best for consumers, while also is good for small players. The only companies regulation is bad for is the large dominant companies like Bell and Telus. Lack of regulation would let them monopolize the market (as if that isn't the case already) which is always bad for consumers... Time for a revolution!
There's one thing worse than the republican party. That's the Tory party that wishes it was republican.
The conservatives don't want to intervene in the economy? They love big telcos? What planet are you on? I recall they recently got rid of trust funds, which BCE/Bell Canada was in the middle of converting to in order to save huge dollars in taxes. This pissed BCE of course. As for the Canadian population getting sick of the current government, the polls have not really shifted since the election was held a year ago. There is nothing I hate more than people that simply make up 'Facts'
As for the Liberals paying attention to net neutrality, let me fill you in on something, the liberals only pay attention to self-promoting issues. Net neutrality has been an issue for longer than a year. They did nothing about it (or anything else for that matter) when they were in power.