Canadians: protest bill C-11!
This is a bit old but I didn't see anything on this so I thought I would post this article. I can't believe I haven't heard of this before. Where are the media on this (as in all over it)???
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'Bill C-11 has disgruntled Canadians taking action' (Feb 9th, 2012)
When news of the threat Bill C-11 potentially poses ( Read more... )
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'Bill C-11 has disgruntled Canadians taking action' (Feb 9th, 2012)
When news of the threat Bill C-11 potentially poses ( Read more... )
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Although I believe it also says something about the media that I hadn't heard about this back then:it isn't as if I don't follow the news.
I'll be writing to my MP as well -at least the NDP are against it.
I'm also hoping that the row against the robocalling will prompt by-elections which will make them lose their majority. (I live in hope!! :-)
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It's pretty annoying because most people are just like OMFG CANADIAN SOPA~~~ when really, no, it's more nuanced than that. It IS updating the copyright law, and no it is not all bad - it does, for example, extend fair dealing of copyrighted material for educational purposes, with the exception of digitally locked material. Yet SO many critics fail to pinpoint exactly what's wrong with this bill. It doesn't need to be completely scrapped, but it does need to be modified.
I thought CIPPIC had the best take.
The Government of Canada announced a new copyright bill this morning, entitled the Copyright Modernization Act. The government claims it is identical to Bill C-32, which the Conservative minority tabled last year. This bill proposes many important updates to Canadian copyright law. If passed, it will legalize activities that Canadians already do on a daily basis: record television, copy songs onto MP3 players, and ( ... )
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Yes, there are problems with C-11, but labeling it Canadian SOPA, which is in the FIRST PARAGRAPH YOU LINKED, is overkill.
And yes, okay, point. But do you want to protest a bill that doesn't let you unlock "locked" material you've already bought (which happens anyways and is essentially near impossible to police) or a bill that allows the police to seize your information from your ISP without a warrant? Where's your post on C-30 then, if you're so interested in ~protesting~?
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"The Toronto Star & Globe and Mail all ran stories about C-11, not my fault you missed it."
Did I blame you for missing it? You know, I don't know if you're aware of this, but your tone is rather aggressive and condescending here. And I did read the papers -did you read all the papers there were on those days, so as to be qualified to say that it was EVERYWHERE?
I don't read the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail on a regular basis, sorry. I get my news from a variety of sources, several of which are in French.
"Yes, there are problems with C-11, but labeling it Canadian SOPA, which is in the FIRST PARAGRAPH YOU LINKED, is overkill."
All right, you disagree with these articles, that's fine.
Why don't you point to the sections in the bill which go against what these commentators are arguing for (I will also point out here that I was not the writer of the original articles)? Here is a link to the full text of the bill ( ... )
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