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.'"

Comments

Re:Legitimate Software Applications

[Bob9113]

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.

Re:Now...

[d_jedi]

We do not need another election - 4 in 5 years? Give me a break!