Canadian Net.Isolation in Progress?

[dewline]

Jesse Brown just posted a note about the cumulative effect of several decisions by governments and corporations on the Canadian net-using public. He closes it by raising several questions of interest to me and to anyone looking to stay in touch with Canadians from anywhere else on the planet as well as the Canadian public.

(Alternative, you can read it here instead. There's more comments already posted at the Search Engine edition of the blog posting already.

Scared? Or Not Scared?

And while I'm on the subject, might this item have anything useful to do with the other above-linked stuff?

Comments

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

I hate to say it, but none of this (except for the report about Twitter) is news to me.

It is precisely because of silliness like this that I wanted Harper gone back in October. What a waste of an election.

I'm hoping that some of the cell-phone silliness will go away when real competition opens up next spring (that was what the frequency auction was about, no?), but the current economic mess may stifle this, sadly.

As for the item about cutting subsidies to political parties, the timing is soooo partisan it's downright disgusting. I saw my sister today, and she was much more disgusted about it than I ... but the NDP is one of the parties currently running a deficit. :-/

Gotta love politics.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

dduane and petermorwood did a good job when they put these words into other make-believe people's word processors: "Fire burns, ale burns, politics burns...but cold were life without them."

That said, it's yet another mess and one we're going to have to drag our politicians of all stripes into fixing one way or another.