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Canadians! Stop this!
« on: January 30, 2011, 10:24:33 am »
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With the new Bill C-32, the corporates yet again try to curtail freedoms in order to generate more profit.
I'm going to ask all Canadians to sign this here :P: Online petition.

I can only hope for you guys.
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Re: Canadians! Stop this!
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2011, 10:43:22 am »
Oh great, it's the Canadian DMCA.
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Re: Canadians! Stop this!
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2011, 11:17:00 am »
I'm kind of a Canadian but I'm lazy and have never lived in Canada. They just gave me citizenship cause they're cool like that. Care to give a nutshell of what this is about?
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Re: Canadians! Stop this!
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2011, 11:26:18 am »
Our ISPs are price gouging monopolies who don't even try for customer service anymore, and this bill allows them to continuing doing that while also making them the front-line defense against suspected digital rights violations. Considering I've already had my internet disconnected once by Rogers when they thought IRC was a virus broadcasting over their network (I've since switched ISPs), I have little confidence in giving them more legal powers.
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Re: Canadians! Stop this!
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2011, 12:24:57 pm »
It's bad, but at least now America isn't the only country in North America with the government trying to censor the entire internet.
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Re: Canadians! Stop this!
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2011, 12:30:27 pm »
lawl @ referring to "america" as a country in a thread about canada
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Re: Canadians! Stop this!
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2011, 12:35:46 pm »
Quote from: Africa on January 30, 2011, 12:30:27 pm
lawl @ referring to "america" as a country in a thread about canada
lawl @ being named Africa as a continent in a thread involving Canada
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Re: Canadians! Stop this!
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2011, 01:08:00 pm »
What a joke, for some reason this doesn't surprise me one bit.the internet prices are high enough as it is, now they want to charge more money for less service.  Thanks alot gov, the rich get richer and the rest get fucked.
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Re: Canadians! Stop this!
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2011, 01:08:41 pm »
There are Aprox. 100,000 people who signed this petition.

Canada has Aprox. 34,300,000 people.

Pretty Good, considering the visibility of a online poll and the general apathy most people have towards politics.
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Re: Canadians! Stop this!
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2011, 01:30:21 pm »
Well, this has got to suck for my friends that moved to Edmonton.
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Re: Canadians! Stop this!
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2011, 07:40:02 pm »
I removed a derail/giant image by Nikov and muted him for a week.
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Re: Canadians! Stop this!
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2011, 07:47:15 pm »
Canada too eh? (Five points if you said this with a canadaian accent!)
Australia has been trying, and failing to censor our internets.
« Last Edit: January 30, 2011, 09:19:55 pm by Max White »
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Re: Canadians! Stop this!
« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2011, 09:12:00 pm »
Quote from: Toady One on January 30, 2011, 07:40:02 pm
I removed a derail/giant image by Nikov and muted him for a week.

That's pretty harsh.
I've done something far worse and only got muted for three days.
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Re: Canadians! Stop this!
« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2011, 09:16:24 pm »
Quote from: Max White on January 30, 2011, 07:47:15 pm
Canada too aye? (Five points if you said this with a canadaian accent!)
Australia has been trying, and failing to censor our internets.

It's eh. Gawd...

And I hope Nikov doesn't get hisself banned.
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« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2011, 09:19:44 pm »
Thank you for that.
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