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Rally for Net Neutrality - May 27th on Parliament Hill Fri, May 23. 2008

If you like choice and performance when it comes to your Internet access, or you just like to support the little-guy... please sneak out early for lunch on Tuesday and join myself and many others on Parliament Hill to rally for net-neutrality.

Don't know what Net Neutrality is? Think double-dipping by telcos wanting to charge extra for access to Google or Facebook... or making them load slower or after showing you ads. Notice how your VPN connection to the office got slower recently? That's thanks to Bell's new DPI from Ellacoya/Arbor. Your BitTorrenting on Rogers just not moving at full speed, even though it's a legitimate download? Enjoy their "bandwidth resource management".

And that's just the beginning. The CRTC doesn't appear to get it, so come help us make sure the message is heard.

Tuesday May 27th, 11:30 - 13:30 on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


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Today's Rally for Network Neutrality was well attended and well covered by the media (even CJOH - which Bell owns!) and there was free WiFi! Some moments from the rallyThere's a private member's bill to be introduced by the NDP, while there's a lot of sk Comment (1)
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#1 - Mike 2008-05-23 06:43 - (Reply)

When is the rally for responsible network management?

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#1.1 - Anonymous 2008-05-27 21:24 - (Reply)

They use a weighted queuing system, so each rally has equal opportunity to consume the rally time that they and they people they are rallying to paid twice for.

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