Warning, this post will have little to do with HR, and only marginally.
The purpose of this post is to express my utmost disappointment in the CRTC bending down to the will of the conglomerates purposefully to reduce access to information that is not a cable, satellite or printed source (strange that both Rogers and Bell have tremendous investments in such ventures). Thanks to their spineless move, people who use the internet for academic research, viewing news reports online, or using web-based messenger programs such as skype to connect to their world, will either have to stop or be willing to shell out 2,3,4 times more than they have.
What confuses me about their ruling is that they just recently allowed foreign competition into the wireless phone market, suggesting they were finally going to open Canada's borders to something a little different than the stifling monopolies which allow overpriced service and unparalleled customer service (the dramas I could share about Bell and Rogers could probably not even raise a candle to some of the stories I do not yet know).
I guess I was wrong.
Good bye affordable communication, easy access to information, and as a result, a little chunk of democracy.
I sure hope someone at the CRTC got greased for this, at least then this decision would have an, al bight less than acceptable, explanation.
SIGN THE PETITION:
http://openmedia.ca/news/openmediaca...uture-internet
