Month: September 2014

Is it time to break up the CRTC into separate brodcasting and telecommunications agencies? I think so. The CRTC has climbed down from its untenable position on regulating the Internet. It has huffed and puffed and struck Netflix’ testimony from the record, which is about as sensible as striking Trotsky from the pictures with Lenin and […]

The  Klingon Empire salutes you, Chairman Blais. According to reports we have heard from reliable sources, you have deliberately arranged this confrontation with the Internet.   You have asked the parties most implicated in the Internet, Netflix and Google, to appear before you, when it seems they only wanted to write paper submissions. You have demanded […]

The CRTC vs. Netflix fight is beginning. Its conclusion – unless the Commission backs off -will  mark the end of its claim to regulate the Canadian portion of the Internet. The CRTC is convinced that the Internet is “broadcasting” when it carries full motion video and is otherwise associated with Canada’s territory. Its “exemption order” is really […]