Tell Tony Clement you Want Net Neutrality
Thanks largely to the thousands of you who spoke out through the SaveOurNet.ca campaigns, the CRTC has issued new rules that are intended to prevent Internet Service Providers from discriminating against certain types of traffic and content.
What's more, last week the federal Liberals made Net Neutrality official party policy. In May, SaveOurNet.ca led a successful campaign to push Net Neutrality to the top of the list on the Liberal party's website where Canadians could vote on which issues matter most to them.
Now both the New Democratic Party and the Liberals have official policies supporting Net Neutrality.
These are huge milestones in the effort to keep Canada's internet open. However, we cannot rest on our laurels. The SaveOurNet.ca coalition has to keep the pressure on the CRTC in order to achieve full Net Neutrality for Canadians.
Internet law expert Michael Geist says that the CRTC decision "... advances the ball forward on several important fronts. ... (it) signifies that traffic management is not a free-for-all and the days of ISPs arguing that they can do whatever they please on their networks is over." However, the decision "also guarantees that traffic management practices such as throttling will continue ..."
As it stands right now, the onus is on the consumer to file a complaint and to prove that the ISP is throttling traffic. We think that's wrong. When it comes to surfing the web, the internet user, not big telecom, should be in the driver's seat.
Please take a moment to send a letter to Industry Minister Tony Clement calling on him to ask the CRTC to conduct regular compliance audits of ISP traffic management practices.
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We really appreciate your help in getting us this far. We will continue to work together until we achieve our goal: Net Neutrality for all Canadians!
The SaveOurNet.ca team
P.S. In Vancouver? Join Steve Anderson, SaveOurNet.ca national co-ordinator, in a panel called "Remixing Pop Culture" and a subsequent presentation titled "Open Internet Now" at Media Democracy Day in Vancouver on Nov. 6 and 7. Get details
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Net Neutrality
Read what Vint Cerf AKA "father of The Internet" has to say:
http://news.techworld.com/networking/5324/internet-father-calls-for-neut...
I agree with this opinion:
"This is not a free lunch," said Senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat. "I paid for the capability to have DSL or cable broadband."
Canadians want Net Neutrality...Mr. Clement, it is your job to ensure Canadians keep Net Neutrality.
What we need is the Public option
It may be beneficial to protest and ask for changes, but It is not enough to ask for a benevolent behavior from corporate-financed politicians.
A group of no-profit media societies, like VCN, SaveOurNet.ca, wirelessBC, etc. need to gather their resources and expertise together and develop an alternative to Shaw, Rogers, Telus, and other providers of high speed band width.
We can do more than reactionary politics.
Net neutrality
Put the responsibility for unrestricted traffic on the ISPs not on the consumer.
When it comes to surfing the web, the internet user, not big telecom, should be in the driver's seat.
Net neutrality
You are completly right, unfortunatly for us, nobody who's "at the wheel" currently agrees with this.
Monopoly
407 should not happen again.
Bell has taken control of the network built from public taxes and now behaves like they spent their money ...and taking taxpayer money again and again...it's like idiot kingdom..duh ....what are the politicians doing to protect the taxpayers???
Cornel
Net neutrality YES
Net neutrality YES
Save the net
Save it!