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Bell Canada Calls for Adding Obligatory Website Blocking to NAFTA

posted by takyon on Sunday October 01 2017, @06:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the web-embargo dept.

canopic jug writes:

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.

Source: Bell Canada Calls for CRTC-Backed Website Blocking System and Complete Criminalization of Copyright in NAFTA

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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday October 01 2017, @10:27AM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday October 01 2017, @10:27AM (#575522) Homepage Journal

    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. 🇺🇸

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