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Justin Trudeau Is 'Very Concerned' With FCC's Plan to Roll Back Net Neutrality (vice.com)
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."
Justin Trudeau should also worry about the general breakdown of the U.S. government in many other areas.
No, the ideas that Google and Facebook censor are those nasty, independent though, backed up by disgusting facts right wing ideas, so Trudeau doesn't care about them.
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
You do realize that Canada has already won a war against the US, right? Oh, no...you probably don't, US education system and all...
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
What happens when a Canadian citizen, using a Canadian ISP streams a video from a service that is shaped by a US network because the infrastructure is in a data center connected to a US telco? Or if the network connection goes through a network that has not been paid off by the service? I'm assuming that if you don't pay (some indie service doesn't pay AT&T or Verizon or whatever) then that service gets throttled no matter the endpoint.
This overall move will probably tend to benefit Canada as more startups will probably locate in Canada (where the corporate tax rate is already at ~12.5%) and where there is at least a hope in hell of delivering their content to users without shaping.
I'm not sure how this will play out exactly, but it won't be good for US innovation.
I am not interested in articles about life extension advancements.
the government should enforce net neutrality to prevent corporate pirates, predators and vultures from dominating it just because they have the most money and power and influence over the infrastructure,
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The US administration or even the US general public is not the intended audience here. Trudeau is trying to reassure Canadian consumers (and warn Canadian ISPs) that Canada's CRTC will not follow in the FCC's footsteps.
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Pretty much like you wouldn't have won the War of Independence without the French
It's my understanding that many people believe that the USA won that war
Try looking at the facts. The US declared war on Britain after multiple provocations by the UK who were trying to stop the US providing Napoleon with supplies. The US's aim in the war was to try and conquer British North America (as it was then) and the British aim in the war was to stop the US supplying Napoleon. At the end of the war the border remained unchanged and there was no need to worry about Napoleon because he had been defeated. So the US did not achieve anything and the UK got what it wanted by default after completely blockading the US during the war. So it's hard to say whether anyone really won but if someone did it was definitely not the US.
Well, the Brits that won that war "for Canada" were actually *FROM* Canada. Canada didn't become sovereign until 1864, and was still part of the UK at the time, so saying that the "Brits won that war for Canada" is kind of like saying that non-Americans actually won the war for America in 1776.
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The American goal was to annex Canada, the Canadian goal was to stay free. Suggesting the Americans won the war of 1812 is like saying Japan won WW2 because we all drive Toyota's.
You mean kind of like how it was non-Americans who won the US revolutionary war?
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> For instance, we have the idea that magically if we cut the corps taxes and the rich peoples that it will make life better for everyone
Nothing magical about it if you think about it for a minute. Suppose there are four countries:
Adanac: 12% tax rate, located in North America
Ocixem: 30% tax rate, located in North America
Asu: 40% tax rate, located in North America
Tarcomed: 100% tax rate (you don't keep any money you make, the government takes it all), located in North America
Which country would YOU most likely put YOUR corporate headquarters in? Is there any chance in hell you'd choose Tarcomed, where the government takes ALL the money as taxes, so you can't possibly make any money? Would YOU invest your 401k savings in a company that can only lose your money, it can't possibly make any money, because any and all profits go to taxes? Of course you wouldn't, unless you're brain dead. Nobody would risk their savings investing in a company that can only lose money.
So we KNOW, it is obvious, that very high corporate tax rates mean nobody will invest their savings and you'll have no businesses in your country. They'd have to be insane to risk their savings if the government was going to take most or all of the profits as taxes. The only question is HOW MUCH do people reduce investment at each possible tax rate? We know 100% tax will mean no businesses, and therefore no economy, absolute ruin. That's obvious.
It's also obvious that some companies will choose to pay the 12% net tax in Canada (or 30% in Mexico) rather than pay 39% by having their headquarters in the US. The only questions are HOW MUCH damage are we doing to the economy by having tax rates twice as high as most industrialized nations, and how high can we go before the economy is utterly and completely destroyed.
The issue is, you suppose there is a free market (or that there could be one) when it comes to ISPs in the US. The ISPs have government sanctioned monopolies, or duopolies. In any area where your only options are the major providers, you'll only be able to choose between bad and also bad.