On Sep 14, 2016, at 12:14 AM, Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca> wrote:
On 2016-09-13 03:42, LHC wrote:
I believe that the CRTC has rules against censorship - meaning that Videotron, Bell etcetera have a choice between following the CRTC code or the provincial law (following one = sanctions from the other), rendering internet service provision to Québec impossible without being a dialup provider from out-of-province.
Canada's Telecom Act (*) dates from 1993, which predates the Internet being a primary transporter that drives the economy.
The clause being looked at by the CRTC is 36:
Content of Messages
36 Except where the Commission approves otherwise, a Canadian carrier shall not control the content or influence the meaning or purpose of telecommunications carried by it for the public.
There is not explicit clause about a carrier not modyfying content or blocking access, so one has to frame an issue to fit existing clauses.
Please explain to me how one modifies a request or response without managing to “control the content” or “influence the meaning or purpose”? Blocking a request or simply failing to answer MIGHT be within the law, but returning a false record certainly seems to me that it would run afoul of the law cited. Owen