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The Case Against the Bell Coalition's Website Blocking Plan, Part 15: It Undermines the Telecommunications Act Policy Objectives - Michael Geist
The CRTC has ruled that it will only permit website blocking in "exceptional circumstances" and only where doing so would further the objectives found in the Telecommunications Act. As yesterday's post noted, even if the CRTC were to think that the terrible Bell coalition website blocking proposal is worth supporting, the plan falls outside the Commission's stated rules on website blocking since the application fails to make the case that it furthers the objectives found in the Act. In fact, not only does the Bell proposal fail to make the case that it furthers the Telecommunications Act objectives, but there is a far better argument that it undermines them. As noted yesterday, the Telecommunications Act identifies nine objectives:
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