Bell, Canada's largest telecom company, has called on the government to support radical copyright and broadcast distribution reforms as part of the NAFTA renegotiation. Their proposals include the creation of a mandated website blocking system without judicial review overseen by the CRTC and the complete criminalization of copyright with criminal provisions attached to all commercial infringement. Bell also supports an overhaul of the current retransmission system for broadcasters, supporting a "consent model" that would either keep U.S. channels out of the Canadian market or dramatically increase their cost of access while maintaining simultaneous substitution.
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Bell Canada Calls for Adding Obligatory Website Blocking to NAFTA
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @06:21AM (1 child)
See subject.
(Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Monday October 02 2017, @05:13PM
Is that "fuck literally," or "literally all?"
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @06:36AM (1 child)
Get rid of the TPP and then renegotiate NAFTA such that it basically becomes the TPP. No one will ever notice...
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday October 01 2017, @10:27AM
We came in with the internet. We came up with the internet. And I think Crooked Hillary and myself would agree very much, when you look at what ISIS is doing with the internet, they’re beating us at our own game. ISIS. We're losing a lot of people because of the internet and we have to do something. We have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is a huge problem. I have a son. He’s 11 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it’s unbelievable. Believe me. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe, it's hardly doable. But I will say, we are not doing the job we should be doing. We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them, maybe in certain areas closing that internet up in some way. But that’s true throughout our whole governmental society. We have so many things that we have to do better. And certainly cyber is one of them. Somebody will say, "oh, freedom of speech, freedom of speech." These are foolish people. We've got to maybe do something with the internet because they are recruiting by the thousands, they are leaving our country and then when they come back, we take them back. 🇺🇸
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @07:29AM (3 children)
Dear Congressmen:
In view of the recent Equifax release of millions of people's private information, I expect you to pass Law that penalizes violation of release of copyrighted/private information equally as stated in the Pledge of Allegiance.
The first three words are "I Pledge Allegiance", and the last three words are "Justice for All".
I urge you not to go on record as willingly abrogating that pledge that all Americans have agreed to.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @09:16AM (2 children)
I never "agreed" to that. My consent was taken for granted at birth, without consultation, and the penalty for denying consent is imprisonment or death. No, I didn't agree to that pledge, and I hold no allegiance.
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Sunday October 01 2017, @11:59AM (1 child)
I matters not. You'll be forced to agree, even agree with whatever the Canadians takes for granted at the birth of one of their own.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Post-Nihilist on Sunday October 01 2017, @07:01PM
We all hate bell Canada here in Canada. It is truly universals: the French Canadian abhors them as much as the English Canada. The two solitudes are united in there hatred of our most profitable in the world telecommunications companies.
Be like us, be different, be a nihilist!!!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @11:08AM (2 children)
all these lovely restrictions
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @11:42AM (1 child)
Analogous to "voluntary income tax"?
(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Sunday October 01 2017, @11:55AM
...and "military intelligence", yes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @12:51PM
"The U.S. and Russia will work together to develop a space station orbiting the Moon. Canada, Japan, and the ESA have also expressed interest in the project:"
Bell can die in a fire, but the rest of the country seems to be doing alright.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @01:56PM (4 children)
How did we get to the state where a closed treaty negotiation can be an end run around the supposedly public process for making laws?
Which part of the Constitution supports this?
If it is supported, then why do we need all the pesky Congressional meetings?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Knowledge Troll on Sunday October 01 2017, @04:09PM (2 children)
the full force of the constitution itself. Yes it effectively gives the Senate alone power to amend the Constitution so long as they can find a third party nation that will go along. It is however well entrenched at this point. It is one of the places where the War on Drugs gains it's power: treaties.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @08:31PM (1 child)
That part does not exist. It is a myth that treaties override the Constitution or are equal to it. The Constitution is the highest law of the land.
Where are you getting this?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @10:33PM
Section 35 says "The existing aboriginal and treaty rights of the aboriginal peoples of Canada are hereby recognized and affirmed."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @09:51PM
Greed. It Makes 'murika Great.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 01 2017, @10:25PM
Anonymous Coward calls for Bell Canada's CEO to suck his balls.