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Justin Trudeau Is 'Very Concerned' With FCC's Plan to Roll Back Net Neutrality (vice.com)

Posted by msmash on from the setting-an-example dept.

Justin Ling, reporting for Motherboard: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says President Donald Trump's plan to roll back net neutrality protections for the internet "does not make sense" and that he'll be looking into what he can do to defend net neutrality for the whole internet. "I am very concerned about the attacks on net neutrality," Trudeau said in Toronto, in response to a question from Motherboard about Trump's plans. "Net neutrality is something that is essential for small businesses, for consumers, and it is essential to keep the freedom associated with the internet alive." Motherboard asked specifically what Trudeau planned to do in response to the plan put forward on Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission, which could pave the way for tiered internet service and pay-for-play premium access to internet consumers. "We need to continue to defend net neutrality," Trudeau added. "And I will."

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  1. Re:The Bastard Child of Castro by BlueStrat · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well, if Net Neutrality disappears

    It would have had to existed as more than some words on paper first (it was never enacted/enforced) in order to 'disappear'.

    Want to see what the 'net would look like without NN? Look around. That's how it's always been and is now.

    NN as written reclassifies ISPs as common-carriers. This means that ISPs and device-makers would have to comply with CALEA which means mandated backdoors and LEA/TLA ability to intercept/decrypt everything codified into law.

    Be very, very careful what you wish for.

    You just may get it.

    Strat

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    Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
  2. Re:The U.S. needs a healthy government. by dskoll · · Score: 1, Troll

    There's no compelled speech. Peterson refuses to use the proper pronouns for trans people. That doesn't make him criminal. It makes him an asshole, but what he's doing isn't illegal. If it were, he'd have been charged.

    I don't agree with WLU's position, for the record. I'm referring to the suggestion that the Canadian government somehow compels speech. The WLU decision was done by a bunch of hyper-scared academics afraid of blowback from touchy students.