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Canada investigating Net-regulations -- call CBC-Radio now!
[David Jones is the head of EF-Canada. Call CBC Radio with your comments
now! (I did, and left them on the voice mailbox that Morning Edition
graciously provided.) --Declan]
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>Date: Mon, 22 Jul 96 11:55:41 EDT
>From: [email protected] (David Jones)
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>Subject: call CBC with your thoughts on BC Attorney General's remarks
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> Murmurings about Internet regulation in British Columbia
>
>I just finished a very brief interview on CBC-Radio in Vancouver.
>They called asking for a comment on the BC Attorney General's
>statement that he has instructed his ministry to investigate whether
>the Internet can be regulated. The reason this is in the news
>is because of the so-called "white power" and "hate" web pages that
>are now available through a BC Internet Service Provider (Fairview Tech),
>after being kicked off an Ontario ISP's computers (Pathyway Communications).
>
>
>I hadn't had my morning coffee, so perhaps you can be more articulate
>on this issue that I was. I encourage you to call the CBC-Radio's
>"talk-back lines" at (604) 662-6976 -- they are inviting comments
>on this issue. Seriously, if you don't want the BC Attorney General
>to regulate the Internet, speak now or forever hold your peace.
>
>
>Background (from Vancouver Sun)
>
> B.C. Internet provider is the largest Canadian site for racist material
> gopher://insight.mcmaster.ca/00/org/efc/media/vancouver-sun.19jul96a
>
> Hate on Internet investigated
> gopher://insight.mcmaster.ca/00/org/efc/media/vancouver-sun.19jul96b
>
> Don't expect easy solutions to cyberspace abuse
> gopher://insight.mcmaster.ca/00/org/efc/media/times-colonist.14jul96
>
>
>See also:
>
> "Skin-Net"
> http://www.ftcnet.com/~skinhds/main.htm
>
> "Freedom Site in Exile"
> http://www.ftcnet.com/~freedom/
>
>
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>David Jones -- Electronic Frontier Canada
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