Over at CBC’s Search Engine, Jesse Brown asks an important question: Is Canada Becoming a Digital Ghetto? I’m reproducing the article in its entirety below.
Here are three things that suck about being Canadian right now:
This growing list of backwards policies is already creating a sense of digital isolation: Canadians can’t stream the videos Americans stream, download the files Americans download, remix the media Americans remix, or tweet the way Americans tweet.
With the election of Barack Obama, digital culture in the U.S. hit a tipping point, where a robust online public sphere proved itself capable of changing the world. Meanwhile, here in Canada we’re approaching our own tipping point, where a series of ignorances and capitulations threaten to turn our country into a digital ghetto.
[Thanks to Mark Relph for pointing me to this article. This article also appears in my tech blog, Global Nerdy.]
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Well, according to the article you linked to, the CRTC found that Bell was not discriminatory -- if anything, they sided with Bell against *all* Bell's customers, not just a few.
aw crap - I'd moved to twitter for instant messaging because my text messaging costs to the united states had gone through the roof since Rogers started charging 25c / message.
Woops! My apologies -- I missed your "I'm reproducing the article" statement at the outset.
Perhaps you could use some special formatting for reproduced material to make it clearer? Or perhaps I could just slow down my reading...
Good article! It was forwarded to Tony Clement and to my local MP.