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Copyright Pledge Continues to Grow With 30 More Liberal and NDP Supporters |
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Friday October 10, 2008
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With the election just a few days away, interest in the copyright pledge continues to grow with 30 more Liberal and NDP candidates on board. This latest update includes prominent MPs such as the Liberal's Marlene Jennings and the NDP's Paul Dewer. Earlier supporters can be found here, here, and here. There are still no Conservative supporters. The newest additions include:
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Mike
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Pledge and Conservatives For all the positioning that all the parties do I find it interesting that if one just steps back and reads the pledge and then looks at the list, there is not a single Conservative. That action (or lack of action) speaks volumes about the party in general, independent of anything they might profess. |
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Net neutrality The green party also mentions net neutrality in their platform. From the NDP platform, page 36: Implement “net neutrality” to protect everyday Canadians’ right to freely access the internet content of their choice at a flat rate and with clear and transparent rules. We will end price gouging and “net throttling”, preventing a two-tiered internet in Canada. Seems to conflict with this pledge on page 31: "Implement new legislation to require all Canadian Internet Service Providers to prevent the publication or proliferation of child sexual abuse content on the Internet." Am I to interpret that as: "Net neutrality, so long as you are not confused/associated with child p**n?" I find the Green party platform more self-consistent in that regard: Page 117 of full platform (119 pdf): Pass legislation granting the Internet in Canada the status of Common Carrier – prohibiting Internet Service Providers from discriminating due to content while freeing them from liability for content transmitted through their systems. With regard to the child exploitation issue (page 85, 87 pdf): Dedicate resources to computer crimes specialists combating the online sexual exploitation of children through child pornography and Internet luring. It is important that the RCMP is provided with the necessary resources and tools to tackle this problem on a national scale. Having the RCMP, rather than the ISP's in charge of policing makes more sense to me. |
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