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The Tyee: Regulators of Our Digital Future Have Lost Public’s Trust

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 11, 2011

[ Thanks to Bernard Swiss
for this link. ]

“The government has told the CRTC to go back to the
drawing board on its Internet metering decision. The Liberals and
NDP have blasted the regulators, too.

“And yet remaining defenders of the decision cling to the
argument that someone has to pay for Internet infrastructure, so
why not let it be the so-called bandwidth hogs among us?

“To still make that the basic issue is to have missed the
citizens’ revolt of the past week, a backlash far beyond the wonky
specifics of how many gigabytes are too many or too pricey.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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