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Federal Court Issues Reasons for Anti-Net Hate Injunction

The Federal Court has issued its reasons for issuing an injunction against a series of Internet hate postings.  In Canadian Human Rights Commission v. Winnicki, the presiding judge had seemingly little difficulty in finding that: 1. The speech at issue constituted hate speech and thus was unlawful.2. The Supreme Court […]

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November 18, 2005 Comments are Disabled News

Net Governance Deal May Not End Debate

The BBC features my op-ed column (BBC version, website version) focusing on this week’s WSIS Internet governance agreement. Much like yesterday’s blog posting, I argue that the outcome reflects the bargaining position of the United States and the European Union, but that the deal may not be as lopsided as […]

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November 16, 2005 Comments are Disabled Columns

The WSIS Deal

There is considerable coverage this morning (or this evening in Tunis) on the last minute WSIS deal struck yesterday.  The gist of the coverage rightly reports that the U.S. emerged with the compromise they were looking for as the delegates agreed to retain ICANN and the ultimate U.S. control that […]

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November 16, 2005 1 comment News

The Lawful Access Spin

As expected, the government today unveiled Bill C-74, the Modernization of Investigative Techniques Act, better known as lawful access.  Since I’ m Tunis, I’m relying on the various releases from PSEPC, the Ministry responsible for the bill.  I’ll update this posting as needed once I’ ve had a chance to […]

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November 15, 2005 17 comments News

The Maclean’s Story

Given that the government will be introducing its lawful access bill today, there is something eerily appropriate about the timing of this week’ s Maclean’s cover story on the shocking privacy invasion of Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart’ s phone and cellphone records. For those that have not seen the story […]

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November 15, 2005 3 comments News