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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."
I mean, if I want to set up a "family friendly" ISP that blocks all pornographic content, that might be an attractive product for families with young children.
Why should the government decide what content the ISPs provide?
lagged b3hind, it wa@s fun. If I'm
If you think net neutrality is a good thing have no fucking understanding of business, property, innovation, or economics.
If I invest my money to run a wire from mofn to bfe, I'll cut the fucking thing down before I let some government asshole tell me I have to let everybody else use it fro fucking free.
Reach up between your leg, grab your ears, and pull down. Good, now that you head is out of your ass, go to a used books store or library or what every, get a copy of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and read it. If you don't understand it, read it again. If you still don't get it, take you commie pinko socialist ass to the gun store, buy a gun and put us out of your misery.
TjD
You, sir, are a fucking tool. Congratulations.
Harper cut the GST by 1%, to offset the income tax rate hike. He allowed seniors to split income, to make up for the income trust decision. He hasn't gutted social programs, as the Libs/NDP alleged, but he has ended public funding for politically driven advocacy groups, such as the SoW council. (I have no problem with the SoW existing, but I'll be damned if my taxes are used to support them, while no conservative women groups get funds.) He's given more tax points to the provinces, which pushes power down to lower levels, something most business gurus have been preaching for years. He got an agreement on softwood lumber which the Liberals failed to get in over 13 years; yes, it wasn't a perfect agreement, but then hasn't the hallmark of a good compromise been that neither party is completely satisfied? He gave parents cash to fund their daycare needs as they see fit, instead of creating a massive new child care bureaucracy to impose their statist agenda on our kids.
All in all, he has taken incremental steps that seem like perfectly reasonable compromises. Even on the environmental file, on which I'll agree his recent change of heart is as sudden as Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus, he still refuses to accept the Kyoto pile of doo-doo, which will penalize Canada by billions of dollars, throwing people out of work, and causing all of us to live poorer lives, while allowing China and India to create more new CO2 emissions than Canada would cut, and thus do absolutely nothing to affect climate change.
It saddens me that tards like you get a vote.
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