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Since Rogers doesn’t act on the content of its internet customers, and consistently has said that they don’t want to do that, I have no idea why Michael Geist took it upon himself to implicate them in such a practice.<\/p>\n

In his post yesterday, he cited an Ottawa Citizen story<\/a> about the CRTC’s New Media hearings that are underway.<\/p>\n

In his article yesterday, Geist wrote: <\/p>\n

Net neutrality is frequently re-characterized as “network management,” with ISPs arguing that they should be able to manage their networks in a manner that distinguishes between certain applications (and potentially content). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He added those three words in parentheses – “and potentially content” – in order to make the ISPs argument fit with the emotions he wanted to whip up. Enough already. Could someone please provide the citation that supports this allegation?<\/p>\n

Which ISP argued that they should be able to manage their network in a manner that distinguishes between content? I haven’t seen that argument put forward by any of the ISPs, so please help me find the reference. I have read the major ISPs submissions and I didn’t find that argument anywhere so please, please help me out here.<\/p>\n

Although Geist tried to suggest that there is an inconsistency in Rogers’ positions set out in the New Media<\/a> proceeding versus those stated in the Network Management<\/a> proceeding, it is only manifested by the addition of words in parentheses that never came from Rogers.<\/p>\n

The quote in the Citizen article was clear:<\/p>\n

“We’re a dumb pipe,” says Ken Engelhart, senior vice-president of regulatory for Rogers Corp. “We don’t know what you’re downloading . . . so how can we be responsible for the content?” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That position has been consistent in everything I have seen from Rogers. For that matter, no Canadian ISP that I know of manages traffic based on the content, no matter how many times people suggest that they could. Canadian law already prohibits this.<\/p>\n

If anything, inconsistencies show up in the net neutrality position set out by Geist. Recall that he proposed<\/a> that ISPs should discriminate on the basis of the national origin of internet content and treat Canadian content differently. His perspective was a surprise to those who believe that our existing net neutrality laws are correct in saying ISPs have no business looking at and acting on the content being carried on their networks.<\/p>\n

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Since Rogers doesn’t act on the content of its internet customers, and consistently has said that they don’t want to do that, I have no idea why Michael Geist took it upon himself to implicate them in such a practice. In his post yesterday, he cited an Ottawa Citizen story about the CRTC’s New Media …<\/p>\n

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