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Stunt Pope writes:
This article takes a look at Canada's Broadband Telecom Legislation Review (BTLR) which was commissioned by the federal government in 2018 to map out how Canada's communications and internet laws should be revised. It posed a set of sweeping recommendations (97 in all) that include imposing new taxes on streaming services, regulating content, and requiring all content creators to obtain a government license.
It concludes with a call-to-action to sign a petition that has been introduced into the House of Commons requesting that the government categorically reject the entire framework.
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Stunt Pope writes:
Customer Feedback surveys are now near-ubiquitous, subjecting us all to near-Black Mirror-esque pursuit to "rate your experience" for everything from going to the bank to ordering a pizza.
Thanks to The Curse of Goodhart's Law, all of these surveys are beyond useless and even damaging.
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Stunt Pope writes:
Back when the City of London Police issued those "takedown requests" to domain registrars, most complied but as previously reported here, easyDNS didn't. So a bunch of the taken down domains wanted to move to easyDNS. One problem: their registrar wouldn't let them.
It took awhile but easyDNS fought it, and finally got a ruling under the ICANN policy that ordered the hostage domains transferred.
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Stunt Pope writes:
This morning Toronto based domain registrar easyDNS received a request from the City of London (UK) police demanding that they summarily take down a bittorrent search site based out of Singapore — or else they would "refer the matter to ICANN" — suggesting easyDNS could lose its accreditation.
They directed them to point all traffic for the domain at an IP address that promoted competing commercial online music services based out of London, UK.
