As of April 7th, 2008 Bell Canada will ‘throttle‘ its internet service. This means that they will implement control over what content you will be able to access at full speeds. They already claim to offer a different range of speeds, which as reported by CBC marketplace, is rather suspect. If Bell gets away with doing this, the new control will open the playing field for other ISPs to enforce control over internet content. The implications of this control could severely effect how the internet works. At this stage the internet is largely a free source of knowledge untainted by our corrupt economic system. Allowing the providers to filter and control content for their own economic benefit is adding major influence from the corrupt economic system on this purportedly free knowledge network.
So what can you do? Well here are a few things:
- Send a letter to support government intervention.
- Email Bell Sympatico’s VP, Daniel Trottier: daniel.trottier@bell.ca
- Contact the Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications services: 1-888-221-1687
- Discontinue use of Bell Sympatico as your ISP
- Read this post, by Michael Geist
- Watch this video:
Please share your thoughts.
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This video is from Lawrence Lessig’s testimony at the “Network Nutrality” hearing at Stanford on the 18th of April. Though these issues aren’t directly related, they are most likely going to lead to a similar outcome. I would recommend checking this video out and also keeping up with some of the dialogue on Lessig’s blog: http://lessig.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/2209
This video is from Lawrence Lessig’s testimony at the “Network Nutrality” hearing at Stanford on the 18th of April. Though these issues aren’t directly related, they are most likely going to lead to a similar outcome. I would recommend checking this video out and also keeping up with some of the dialogue on Lessig’s blog: http://lessig.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/2209
April 20th, 2008
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