Today just seems to be a day that the press is looking at the issue of blocking internet content.
Warren Kinsella writes in The National Post that Canada needs a better net nanny.
Last time anyone checked, making a death threat against a person was, indeed, an indictable criminal offence. So why would the CRTC even pause, for a moment, to impose a less-burdensome penalty — and when it has the clear mandate and power to do so?
Last month, we didn’t even ask the CRTC to order blocking. All we asked for was for the CRTC to permit ISPs that volunarily wanted to. We didn’t ask for a general framework. We looked at two specific sites.