Month: November 2015
Quebec introduces website blocking legislation
/The Government of Quebec has introduced its website blocking legislation. The intention is to have ISPs in Quebec compelled to block a set of gambling sites, which list will be drawn up by the Regie des loteries: “260.35. The Société des loteries du Québec shall oversee the accessibility of online gambling. It shall draw […]
Read more »Saving obsolete economic forms
/An article in the invaluable CARTT newsletter speaks of the decline of local television news. On the same day an article in the Washington Examiner bemoans the death of hard news in the newspaper business. So what is to be done? The answer is simple. Nothing whatever. How many of you now read the news on a computer […]
Read more »Canada’s Internet record – great, and about to get worse
/Freedom House publishes an annual review of how countries treat the Internet. Canada’s record is exemplary. We came third in the world, behind Iceland at #1 and Estonia at #2. One is a Lutheran society which was born in a rebellion against centralizing authority of Kings, and the other is a Lutheran society born in resistance […]
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