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Canadian MP Calls For ISP Licenses, Content Blocks

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the fun-time-over dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A member of Canada's ruling Conservative party has pledged to "clean up" the Internet with new bill that would mandate ISP licensing, know-your-subscriber rules, and allow the government to order ISPs to block content. ISPs that fail to block would faces possible jail time for the company's directors and officers."

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  1. Re:Obligatory comment by QuickFox · · Score: -1, Redundant

    How can anyone give a Funny mod to an In Soviet "joke"? Those "jokes" are so painfully predictable and uncreative that the only reasonable mod is Redundant.

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  2. Re:Obligatory comment by BlueTrin · · Score: -1, Redundant

    In Soviet Slashdot, Redundant is VOTING YOU !

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  3. Canadian MP? by djones101 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    One of the mounted police wants to censor the Internet?! For shame!

  4. Re:what's happening by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Madness? THIS IS CANADA!

  5. Re:what's happening by deKernel · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Here is a little reading regarding the 2000 election. I don't have time to investigate the 2004 election, but I have heard it is quite similar.

    Number of States won by:
    Gore: 19
    Bush: 29

    Square miles of land won by:
    Gore: 580,000
    Bush: 2,427,000

    Population of counties won by:
    Gore: 127 million
    Bush: 143 million

    Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
    Gore: 13.2
    Bush: 2.1