Appeared in the Toronto Star on August 28, 2006 as Content Blocking a Can of Worms More than a decade ago, John Gilmore, one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, coined the phrase "the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." Last week, the Canadian […]
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CRTC Denies Hate Site Request
The CRTC has issued a quick decision on the Warman request to allow Canadian ISPs to block access to two U.S. based hate sites. The Commission denied the application, basing its decision primarily on the fact that other parties (the carriers, the sites) were not provided with notice and the […]
CRTC Asked To Order Hate Sites Blocked
Lawyers for Richard Warman, Canada's leading online hate fighter, have filed an application with the CRTC requesting that it issue an order enabling carrier ISPs to block two foreign hate sites that have issued death threats against Mr. Warman. One of the sites – a blog hosted on blogspot – […]
Oda Announces Broadcast Study
Canadian Heritage Minister Bev Oda has announced that the government is commissioning a major study on the future of television and radio regulation. Oda claims that "other nations began to build the policy framework for the new digital world decades ago. Unfortunately Canada did not." It would be interesting to […]
CIRPA at the CRTC
While I have posted on CRIA’s performance at the CRTC, MisterBryans points out that CIRPA’s executive director was simply embarrassing in responding to a question on making commercial radio more multicultural.
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