"It’s time we caught up with many countries in the rest of the world and mandated a limit on contracts, or a limit on cancellation penalties to not more than 18 months." Read the whole thing.
Wireless North on Cellphone Contracts
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Hear Hear
Since consumers have next to no bargaining power when dealing with their cellular providers in Canada a small amount of legislated protection would be fantastic.
I teach a new media class in the journalism dept at Concordia. We use computer labs to explore the concepts we discuss in class. Those labs don’t have access to Facebook any more.
My gut reaction is this is a well-intentioned but overly bureaucratic IT department, that does not realize it’s violating some fundamental rules of free speech and access to information in a democratic society.
CBC called me today for an interview. Here it is:
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Matt
Maybe we don’t need more regulation. Maybe we just need some good old fashioned competition law enforcement. The head of the Competition Bureau knows all about the phone and wireless industry because she’s from Bell, so she should be able to take them on. Or could it be that she doesn’t think that her old industry could possibly be doing anything wrong? After all, there are at least three players 😉
Matt Forsythe their is very little if any educational use for facebook. Even tho you appear to be an educator for a new media journalism class I suggest you pick up some courses on Network administration. Maybe one of your overly bureaucratic IT department officials can show you the proof of how serious an issue it can be. I don’t agree with most forms of censorship, but in this case their not suspending the fundamental laws of free speech (this isnt china) your students can practice their journalism elsewhere (and will probably be safer privacy wise). Download peer guardian on your lab machines and watch the spam fly through facebook.
@sin ick ditto.. I agree a little competition bureau regulation would go a long way.