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No Internet Lockdown Resources
Big Media lobbyists are trying to lock down the Internet in Canada through legislation like Bill C-11 and the trade agreements ACTA and TPP.
Bill C-11 has already passed its second reading. It currently includes provisions to lock users out of their own services and give Big Media giants increased power to shut down websites have already made their way into Bill C-11.
We’re now looking at the “most restrictive digital lock provisions in the world” and Big Media is still hoping for powers that include website blocking and Internet termination, even for unproven allegations of infringement.
This approach is backwards: it suffocates online choice and it’s patently unfair. It's time for policy makers to stop listening to megacorporate lobbyists and work to put Canada on the map as a leader in Internet openness and affordability.
Stop The Cell Phone Squeeze Resources
The Big Three cell phone giants have a plan for Canada:
1. Squeeze independent providers out of the cell phone market.
2. Squeeze more money out of your wallet every month through new fees on your bill.
3. Squeeze Canadians into tighter, longer-term contracts with disrespectful customer service.
The Big Telecom scheme will cripple innovation, drain your wallet every month, and put Canada even further behind the rest of the world on mobile communications. Canadians already pay some of the highest cell phone fees in the industrialized world, and Big Telecom is trying to make our unfair, expensive situation even worse.
Stop Online Spying Resources
The government is about to push through a set of electronic surveillance laws that will invade your privacy and cost you money. The plan is to force every phone and Internet provider to allow "authorities" to collect the private information of any Canadian, at any time, without a warrant.
This bizarre legislation will create Internet surveillance that is:
- Warrantless: A range of "authorities" will have the ability to access the private information of law-abiding Canadians and our families using wired Internet and mobile devices, without justification.
- Invasive: The laws leave our personal and financial information less secure and more susceptible to cybercrime.
- Costly: Internet services providers may be forced to install millions of dollars worth of spying technology and the cost will be passed down to YOU.
Stop The Meter Resources
We’re looking at a future where big telecom companies will charge per byte for Internet use, the way they do with smart phones. If we allow this to happen, Canadians will have no choice but to pay much more for less Internet.
Big phone and cable companies are obviously trying to gouge Canadians, control the Internet market, and ensure that we continue to subscribe to their television services.
This will crush innovative services, Canada's digital competitiveness, social progress, and your wallet.
Save Our Net Resources
When it comes to surfing the web, the Internet user, not big telecom, should be in the driver's seat. But a handful of companies want a discriminatory or "gatekeeper" network so they can control Canadians' access to the Internet. They have already been caught throttling or slowing Internet traffic to businesses and consumers, blocking access to websites that criticized them and crippling consumer devices and applications.
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