Canada Gov't Censors Parliament Hearings On YouTube

An anonymous reader writes "The Canadian government has admitted sending cease and desist letters to YouTube demanding that it remove videos of Parliamentary hearings. Lawyers for the House of Commons argue that using videos of elected representatives without permission constitutes copyright infringement and a contempt of Parliament."

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Re:Lawyers Against Government Transparency? No Way

[Hurricane78]

You can moderate the parent comment troll all you like, but we have to admit he's a bit right.
Obama certainly is better than Bush. But that isn't that hard now, it it? ^^

The most interesting fact here is, that the very banks that got those tons of money, were the ones that nearly entirely payed his whole campaign. And I think we all already agreed some months ago, that Biden is a tool of the content industry. ^^
The thing that really hit me positively with Obama, (And here is the point that you should have read too, if you modded me troll too by now. ^^) was that what he said was almost *exactly* what I would have planned, if I would be the president. Something I thought to be unthinkable.
The thing that really hit me negatively, was how so many people he appointed, were busted for this crime and that crime. And how he chose to appoint the next guy, and that guy *also* got busted for some shit.
I really wonder if this happened, because Obama, in the attempt to keep his promises, ignored the lobbies and appointed who he really thought was the best one, and those lobbies then went to find something to get that guy killed... or if Obama did actually deliberately choose bad people? (Or both? Or none of both?)

I think I will only judge him, *after* his actions. And I will not judge him relative to Bush, but relative to my values.

Re:Lawyers Against Government Transparency? No Way

[Aczlan]

The thing that really hit me negatively, was how so many people he appointed, were busted for this crime and that crime. And how he chose to appoint the next guy, and that guy *also* got busted for some shit. I really wonder if this happened, because Obama, in the attempt to keep his promises, ignored the lobbies and appointed who he really thought was the best one, and those lobbies then went to find something to get that guy killed... or if Obama did actually deliberately choose bad people? (Or both? Or none of both?)

or (just my theory) it was politics as usual and he repaid (or is repaying) the favors he owes from the campaign (I find it hard to believe that one could go from Jr. Senator to POTUS in one campaign season without owing quite a few people favors). I would not be surprised to find that some of his cabinet picks were due in part to that (Tom Daschle for example), but I hope that he looked for qualified people first and then looked to see who he owed the most favors

I think I will only judge him, *after* his actions. And I will not judge him relative to Bush, but relative to my values.

As it should be.

Aaron Z