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Telco Company Claims Freedom of Speech Includes Misleading Ads

Posted by samzenpus on from the liar-liar dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Rogers Telecommunications is claiming that a ruling by Canada's Competition Bureau violates Rogers' freedom of speech. The company is in court over a 2010 ad campaign where it claimed that its discount brand 'Chatr' was more reliable and suffered fewer dropped calls than the competition. The Competition Bureau found 'no discernible difference in dropped-call rates between Rogers/Chatr and new entrants' and began legal proceedings against Rogers for violating Canada's Competition Act. The Bureau is seeking a $10 million (CDN) fine, an end to the ad campaign, and for Rogers to issue a corrective notice."

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  1. More about Obama lies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Turns out Soptic’s wife still had her own insurance after he lost his job. She stopped working as a result of an accident:"
    Is there a hospital in the United States that turns away a patient. No, it is against the law. So we have on the surface one Pinocchio; the second Pinocchio is they did not lose their insurance due to the plant closing, she still had hers. The third Pinocchio is the time frame of Mitt leaving the company seven years before her cancer was diagnosed. The fourth Pinocchio is no disclosure that the union was responsible for the plant closing. They were asked to take cut-backs in benefits and pensions and refused that made the company costs too heavy to carry and would extend their loses. The fifth Pinocchio may be legal, Burton was a spokesman for Obama until a short time ago. the campaign cannot coordinate with the PAC but, only a short time ago (weeks) I saw Burton on TV acting as a surrogate speaker as has Gibbs. If there is daylight between Burton, Gibbs Axelgrease and Obama it is as thin as Obama's resume.
    These spurious attacks are obvious to the point of being slanderous, of what value is winning an election if you can't lead? So the biggest Pinocchio of all is the Obama declaration that he is president of all of Americans. How long can the media keep kissing Obama's butt and be perceived as having value?