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Liberal Party of Canada Comes Out In Support of Net Neutrality
bryxal writes "The Liberal Party of Canada, currently leading in most polls, has announced yesterday that it supports Net Neutrality, saying, 'Internet management should be neutral and not be permitted for anti-competitive behaviour, nor should it target certain websites, users, providers or legitimate software applications. We must protect the openness and freedom of the internet, and maintain competition to spur innovation, improve service levels and reduce costs to users.'"
Everything they say and do is opposite the conservatives. They don't care, they are just doing their jobs.
I wonder who gets to decide what a "Legitimate Software Application" is?
I was going to post the same thing. Sorry my mod points are on cooldown. Well said.
Corollary questions: Who decides how to distinguish between the data stream of a legitimate app and the data stream of an illegitimate app? What if they use an identical data stream? What level of false positive blocking is OK? False negative passing?
Corporate networks can filter at the protocol and packet level because they are independent networks whose need for security exceeds their need for liberty. Society-level networks require the opposite priority order to maximize societal profit. Tell your politician.
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We do not need another election - 4 in 5 years? Give me a break!
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"Now, if Ignatieff could take back the 34 years he spent outside Canada, his self-admitted snobbery, and his comment that he was American, he might stand a chance."
If living in Britain has taught me anything, it's that you shouldn't be afraid of foreigners and politics, even if he clearly isn't actually a foreigner despite his comments.
I say this because Europe has done a better job of governing Britain than Britain's own government has this last few years. We've had to depend on the European Court of Human rights to overturn some decisions passed by our ruling government that the vast majority of the population was against because the government wouldn't do it for us.
The more I see of the world, the more I realise patriotism is more often than not overrated. Judge people on their ability to actually do the job, not where they come from - if they're no good at the job then fair enough, but if they're damn good at their job, who cares about the rest of it?
FWIW I'll almost certainly be moving to Canada within a few years as my long time girlfriend is Canadian. You have a lovely country and I promise I wont try and stand for PM ;)