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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.'"
Now, if Ignatieff (leader of the Liberal party) would just get his ass in gear and get a new election called so that Harper can be shown the door we could get that network neutrality into action....
Skype is actively blocked here in EU by many ISPs, because some big telcos and their ISP branches decided that Skype is eating too much into their pie. Skype is notorious low bandwidth app so claims of bandwidth concerns etc. are ill-founded. Canada is showing some sense and those EU drones in Brussels should do something, a constitutional amendment perhaps ?
Canada just keeps getting more and more impressive. Again, ahead of the curve on social justice. They put the US to shame.
Not really. This is the opposition the article is about. And its not even a very good opposition. Harper, the PM, got passed minimum sentences for marijuana possession with the Liberals help. His mandate is to make Canada more like the US, and bit by bit perhaps he'll succeed. The left is split and he only needs about a third of the popular vote to form the gov't. If Canadians don't learn to vote strategically, he'll get in again and again.
Loose lips lose spit.
The "liberal" in "Liberal Party" has the traditional American meaning and is not used in the European sense. In Europe, a "liberal" is one who favors market liberalization: lower taxes, less regulation, and longer work hours. For example, France's Nicolas Sarkozy was accused of being a "liberal" when he ran in the presidential election.
I wonder who gets to decide what a "Legitimate Software Application" is?
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I am glad that you brought up mandatory minimums. It would appear as though they have the summer to mull over the bill.
Alberta's law against sane education and basically the whole state of affairs up here is certainly a cause for election.
After the liberal vote on mandatory minimums it would appear that the only party supporting legalization is the NDP.
However, unfortunately step 1 is getting the conservatives out of power.
Everything they say and do is opposite the conservatives. They don't care, they are just doing their jobs.
For those of you thinking of moving to canada, remember this:
If you die in Canada, you die in real life! http://xkcd.com/180/
Bell Canada is in hot water with their wholesale ISP customers because they are throttling the bandwidth from the cabinets/COs upstream. However, they are throttling both their own retail subscribers _and_ these ISP resellers. Personally, I see this as a commercial issue between the ISPs and Bell. The ISPs should have SLAs that document precisely how much bandwidth they are allowed to peak at.
However, ISPs, instead of negotiating, running their own wire, or buying their own DSLAMs have gone lobbying. They tried the regulator, who told them to get lost. They've managed to convince a lot of customers that Bell is being anti-competitive and against "Net Neutrality" by throttling. Remember, Bell applies the same shaping to their own customers.
So, everyone is hoping that this means that the Liberals are against this throttling. However, I can't see how it would have any bearing on that, since all subscribers are throttled the same.
Net Neutrality is a complex issue - where are you allowed to throttle, how are you allowed to throttle, are you allowed QoS, preferential feeds over a common connection, preferential feeds over independent connections. What's the difference between a VPN on one wire and a separate wire? Are you allowed to host local mirrors of high traffic sites? Are you allowed to charge fees for that hosting? If you're a VoIP provider as well as the ISP, are you allowed to provide preferential services? If you offer DTV, how about then? What makes a cable TV provider able to give preferential treatment to cable TV channels, but an ISP can't do it for Internet TV?
This was purely a publicity stunt without any real substance behind it. Particularly since Canada has a minority government and could be voted down at any point in time. Heck, they managed to get mentioned on slashdot - talk about hitting the target market!
I saw the same thing in New Zealand. During the election, the opposition minister was quoting as saying that the copyright legislation was stupid, and that he didn't know why he voted for it. As soon as they got in, NZ had S92A, three strikes and you're disconnected without appeal or evidence.
Please. Once again, for all the creationists out there, evolution is not a religion. It is science. Science is based on observable phenomena. Religion is based on a feeling. And all this has absolutely nothing to do with homosexuality.
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Same here in Australia. One new Government created a distinction between "core promises" and "non-core promises". Simple as that.
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And 150 years ago you'd be screaming about how them negros is only 3.5ths of a human and therefor should get their asses back out to the cotton fields. The nice thing about culture and evolution is MOST of us do evolve, unlike yourself.
Guys like you that are constantly screaming about "homos" remind me of that old Bobcat bit on gay bashing "I hate you because your queer and the bible says so, aaaaand I think you kinda cute and that makes me uncomfortable SO DIE FAG!". Get over it, okay? There is homosexual behavior in birds, in various species all along the chain, and you know what? They're all still here. If you are so damned scared of letting your kid know that gays exist you're probably secretly afriad that your kid may be one and you know what? They just might be.
I had a friend in HS whose parents were venom spewing bible thumpers, always spewing hatred about gays and non believers. I found out why a couple of years after Brian graduated when I ran into him on the street. It turns out they made his life a living hell, and the second he got accepted into college he told them he was gay and to go fuck themselves. Now they have no children and will spend their remaining years without knowing anything about their child's life. How fucking sad. of course I'm sure if that happens to you you'll just clutch your little book and pretend your child never existed. How fucking sad. I truly pity you. If Jesus could come back today and see how his message of love was turned into nothing but venomous hatred by guys like you I'm sure he'd throw the book into the fire and start over.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
The CRTC regulates communications in Canada and it's an arm's length agency. That is to say that the federal cabinet can't control its decisions. The Conservatives tried to force them to deregulate VOIP. The CRTC disobeyed the order. There was nothing the cabinet could do.
How do the Liberals expect to get around this fact?
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Give unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's refers to paying you taxes not killing unborn babies. And the Bible forbids following laws that contradict the Bible.
Also Isreal has nothing to do with Jesus they killed him and the Jews do not believe Jesus was the messiah. Jews worship YHWH (god) but they do not believe Jesus (Yahshua) was his son.
The KKK was a Catholic (not christian group) and I was not refering to them.
In Mein Kampf, Hitler used the German word for evolution (Entwicklung) many times, citing "lower human types." He criticized the Jews for bringing "Negroes into the Rhineland" with the aim of "ruining the white race by the necessarily resulting ization." He spoke of "Monstrosities halfway between man and ape" and lamented the fact of Christians going to "Central Africa" to set up "Negro missions," resulting in the turning of "healthy . . . human beings into a rotten brood of s." In his chapter entitled "Nation and Race," he said, "The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel, but he, after all, is only a weak and limited man; for if this law did not prevail, any conceivable higher development (Hoherentwicklung) of organic living beings would be unthinkable." A few pages later, he said, "Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live."
Comparing christians to the guy who shot the abortion doctor is like comparing evolutionists to Hitler.
And the bible was written by scribes mostly see the goat herders were busy herding goats.
wow those link showed some real conclusive evidence. I meant a real missing link that would remove all doubt from my mind not 3 bones and a drawing of what it might have looked like. And at one time science said the earth was flat and the earth was the centre of the universe.