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Canadians Battling Proposed Canadian DMCA
An anonymous reader writes "CTV reports on how Canadians are fighting back against the Canadian DMCA. Led by Michael Geist, the Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook group is nearing 90,000 members. There are local chapters, a YouTube contest, wikis, and people writing letters and organizing rallies against the copyright bill. Geist said, 'When you get tens of thousands of Canadians speaking out like this, there's big political risk for any political party who chooses to ignore it.'"
The US was founded as a republic and not a democracy for this very reason. I do know that Canada is a representative democracy like the US,
so therefore the same reasoning may apply there as well.
The individuals in the capatilist class (the top 2% of the population) own the means of production.
The rest of the classes, are at the mercy of how well this 2% shares or grants access to the means of production.
Why do you think the government pointed machine guns at the union protesters back in the early 20th century? Because if the status quo were changed it would go against what the founding fathers envisioned! A representative democracy is set up to protect property rights first so that the capitalist class can maintain control, then human rights and the democratic process come second.
So, yes, the Canadian DMCA will pass if Canada is much like the USA in this regard.