Bill C-398 ‘necessary and timely’: Charlie Angus

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NDP digital affairs critic Charlie Angus waded back into the Net neutrality fight when last Friday, he tabled Bill C-398 written, he said, to make sure future development of the Net isn’t impeded by, “unfair throttling or interference by telecom giants”.

The principle is simple, it’s the consumer, not the corporations, who should be deciding what content has value on the internet, he stated, going on:

“We can’t sit back and allow the telecom giants to arbitrarily decide which content should be in the fast lane and which content should be pushed to a slow lane.

“Throttling of third-party ISP competition should be a wake-up call for Canadian consumers.”

The telecom giants, “don’t own the internet and they shouldn’t be able to use their position as service providers to give priority to their own content.”

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