During the NAFTA negotiations Bell Canada tried to make using a VPN (Virtual Private Network) illegal. While the treaty does not specifically have the term VPN in it, it does describe exactly what a VPN does. From the article:
Apparently, you can count Canadian telecom incumbent Bell among the companies hoping to ban VPN use. Anja Karadeglija, the editor of paywalled telecom news outlet the Wire Report, obtained documents this week highlighting how Bell had been pushing Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland for a VPN ban to be included in NAFTA negotiations. Why? It doesn't want users using VPNs to watch the US Netflix catalog:
"In its submission, Bell argued that Canadians accessing content from a US service with a VPN "unjustly enriches the US service, which has not paid for the Canadian rights" but nonetheless makes that content available to Canadians. Bell's media arm reportedly spends millions on content for it streaming service, Crave TV, which allows Canadians to stream content from American networks such as HBO and Showtime."
[...] How exactly you're supposed to determine that somebody is using a VPN to not watch Bell's own television services isn't really explained, and the fact that enforcement would likely be technically impossible appears to have been an afterthought. As Canadian Law Professor Michael Geist was quick to note, trying to ban VPNs just as they're reaching critical mass as a partial solution to raging North American privacy scandals suggests Bell may not exactly have its finger on the pulse of common sense on this particular subject.
Evil has a new name.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Monday February 04 2019, @07:27PM
No need to build a wall.
Just make Mexico happy, fat, and dumb. Ensure they have quality television, like reality tv, The Kardashians, etc. Ensure their education system is like ours. Facts are not needed nor wanted. Ensure they have high quality news, like Fox News, the best news. The very best. Provide distractions that keep people from exercising. Let the US food industry ensure that high fructose corn syrup is part of every single bite that Mexicans eat. Ensure that Mexicans who don't get hooked on anti-social media get hooked on gaming instead.
Problem solved.
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