{"id":108,"date":"2008-11-20T12:05:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T17:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inguz.net\/?p=108"},"modified":"2008-11-20T12:05:54","modified_gmt":"2008-11-20T17:05:54","slug":"the-crtc-is-a-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inguz.net\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"The CRTC is a failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think it is time the government of Canada seriously considers dissolving the CRTC. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is supposed to be the holder of the public good in regulating those industries listed in the CRTC’s name. They have once again backed away from protecting the public good and are allowing telecom companies in Canada to do what they will with the traffic that is on their networks<\/a>. Canadian telcos have been given the green light to censor anything they want if it travels on their network. We have already seen Telus do this in the past by blocking a labour groups web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What is the point of having a regulator that fails to regulate? It’s not like the situation is going to get any worse. I’m sure that frequency licensing could be handed to another bureaucratic arm of the government. The media likes to call the CRTC a “watchdog”. I think it has become a guard dog, watching out for the interests of the major telcos and media companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think it is time the government of Canada seriously considers dissolving the CRTC. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is supposed to be the holder of the public good in regulating those industries listed in the CRTC’s name. They have once again backed away from protecting the public good and are allowing telecom companies … <\/p>\n

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