CRTC declines to regulate the Internet
June 5, 2009 12:39 pm Uncategorizedhttp://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2009/2009-329.htm
This is an important decision. Consider the alternative, that the CRTC would licence speakers, authors, writers, photographers, downloaders, musicians or bloggers, or “exempt” them from broadcast licencing, on condition, of course, of being good or paying a tax. It is rare that government turns down an opportunity to regulate.
Of note is the concurring opinion of Commissioner Denton, who rips into the Broadcasting Act with a vengeance.
Where is the blogosphere on this? Asleep?
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Phil :
Date: June 5, 2009 @ 1:16 PM
I posted on BT last night when this first broke.
fernstalbert :
Date: June 5, 2009 @ 2:58 PM
Finally a government commission that does not expand its power. The bureaucrats must be asleep at the keyboard. The free flow of information and opinions is too important for a self-serving pencil pushers to oversee. Cheers.