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More on Net Neutrality

Published November 13th, 2006 in censorship, net neutrality, other | No Comments »

To follow up on our last post on net neutrality, here is a good intro video called “Human Lobotomy.” In the vid, Sir Tim Berners-Lee (founder of the Internet) gives this definition of network neutrality: “if I pay to connect to the net, with a given quality of service — and if you pay to connect to the net with the same or a higher quality of service — then you and I can communicate across the net with that quality of service.”

For more resources, please check out our previous post on the topic or visit neutrality.ca. Thanks Danielle!

-SIO

Copyright for Every Holiday: The White Poppy Controversy

Published November 10th, 2006 in censorship | No Comments »

… yet another story proving that copyright constrains public discussion and free speech, but this time with a Remembrance Day flavour. The White Poppy was suggested in 1926 as a “No More War” poppy for pacifists: “The White Poppy symbolises the belief that there are better ways to resolve conflicts than killing strangers,” says the Pledge Peace Union website. In 1933, the Co-operative Women’s Guild in Britain produced the first white poppies and “stressed that the white poppy was not intended as an insult to those who died in the First World War - a war in which many of the women lost husbands, brothers, sons and lovers” (again from the PPU).

But the Royal Canadian Legion has a problem with the poppies, and an Edmonton Journal article explains that these alternative poppies are actually illegal in Canada. The problem? Rod Stewart, a vice-president of the legion’s Alberta-Northwest Territories Command, spoke with Edmonton Journal writer Bill Mah, who wrote:

The poppy, in any form other than a real poppy, is a registered symbol of the legion and can’t be used without permission, Stewart said. He said the legion will ask the groups selling white poppies to stop. Legal action has been used in the past to enforce trademark infringement, he said.

Legal action against voices for peace? Quelle crock.

-SIO

Award for the Advancement of Intellectual Freedom in Canada - February 28, 2007

Published November 4th, 2006 in censorship, freedom of expression | No Comments »

Feb. 28, 2007 is the deadline for Award for the Advancement of Intellectual Freedom in Canada nominations! See: http://www.cla.ca/awards/intfreedom.htm

(via Toni Samek)

- JH

Welcome to Canada Net Neutrality!

Published November 2nd, 2006 in censorship, information commons, net neutrality, public domain | 1 Comment »

Well. The issue of net neutrality has finally docked in the Canadian media with stories as reported by Kyenta. What is net neutrality? It’s basically federal legislation that prevents telecommunications companies (like Bell, Rogers, and Telus) from filtering content from the Internet. As Michael Geist says in a blog posting,

In recent months, Internet service providers in Canada and the U.S. have begun to sketch out a vision of a two-tiered Internet in which they charge websites to deliver their content to consumers, limit consumers’ ability to use certain applications, and reserve the right to charge premiums for the use of services such as Internet telephony.

Net neutrality prevents that kind of corporate freedom, and such legislation made its rounds in the United States where telecommunications giants essentially prevented its becoming law. According to The Canadian Press, “U.S. legislators are currently reviewing their decision to scrap the law … big U.S. telecom companies are on their best behaviour as they await a final green light.” And now it’s coming to Canada.

Usually when we hear about a public policy issue on the news and a particular stance is supported by a corporation or industry spokesperson, we can be pretty sure that the public interest lies somewhere opposite anything the spokes say. Net neutrality is a bit more complicated, though, because one industry group (content providers like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc.) claims to support net neutrality legislation and another (telecommunications companies and internet service providers or ISPs, like Bell, Rogers, Telus, etc.) opposes it.

ISPs (the telecoms) want to be able to be the Internet’s content gatekeepers. As Ben Scott (of Free Press and SavetheInternet.com) told the CP, telecoms “say, `Well, we own the wires and instead of treating all bits alike in a non-discriminatory fashion, we’re going to set up special deals and if you [content providers like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc.] have the money, you can pay us to make your websites go much faster. And you can pay us to set up an exclusive deal where your website goes very fast and your competitor’s doesn’t.’ ”

Content providers, then, support net neutrality because it would prevent ISPs from charging them for preferential access to customers (e.g. if you want faster access to customers, you have to pay us). The content providers are calling foul, claiming that without net neutrality laws, the Internet will belong to the wealthiest corporations who can buy the prime bandwidth from the telecommunications corporations. Indeed, we might ask - if people have to pay to be seen, where will that leave the CBC or alternative media? Or blogs like this one? Or anti-poverty groups? And in case you think websites can’t be blocked, think again. FreePress reports:

…already there’s been extensive documentation of abuse of power from network owners. For example, in 2004, North Carolina ISP Madison River blocked DSL customers from using its rival Vonage’s Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) services. In 2005, the Canadian telecom corporation Telus blocked its users from accessing a pro-union website during a Telus labor dispute. And in 2006, Time Warner blocked a mass-email campaign from its customers that was critical of AOL’s proposed tiered email system.

Bad, right? Right. Here are some sources to check out (in addition to the ones listed in this posting):

* The final report of the Telecommunications Policy Review Panel (especially the parts about “unjust discrimination”). The TPRP was mandated to conduct a review of the Canadian telecommunications framework (Michael Geist provides a fairly nuanced analysis).

* The Alternative Telecommunications Policy Forum has an excellent page on net neutrality.

* Kevin McArthur from StormTide Digital Studios (in Duncan BC) has created this website on net neutrality.

* Free Press and SavetheInternet.com

* And Heiko has already gone through the world and annotated all the good Net Neutrality vids out there. Thank-you!

Three last thoughts:

One. I feel so lucky to live in Ottawa right now - there’s a not-for-profit Internet service provider here called the National Capital Freenet. And the public library happens to be a partner in the project. Therefore, a little less money goes to corporations trying to make a buck.

Two. I dashed onto YouTube to pull up Jon Stewart’s Net Neutrality video because it’s very very funny and clever - only to find that the main one had been pulled off the site “due to copyright infringment.” I wonder when that happened: pre or post Google-Takeover? And is that a sign of things to come? Anyhow - this is now drifting into the Off-Topic of the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty, so I will end by saying that a lesser-viewed version of the Jon Stewart episode is here until further notice. If it goes, too, we may have to start a new YouTube (maybe YouTubeTwo?).

Three. E-mails to the Minister of Industry Maxime Bernier and Minister of Canadian Heritage Bev Oda anyone? And pop your name onto the petition at www.neutrality.ca (and please follow the other instructions for action given there).

Four. Thank-you, Kyenta, for the heads’ up on this one. We’re looking forward to hearing what the CIPPIC tells you…

-SIO

China Unblocks Wikipedia

Published October 12th, 2006 in censorship, open access, open government, privacy | No Comments »

“China has unblocked Wikipedia. Wikipedia refused to censor itself to appease totalitarian Beijing, but China unblocked it anyway. China needs Wikipedia and Chinese net-users would access it using circumvention tools — the block on Wikipedia made Chinese Wikipedia users into automatic dissidents.

If only Google, Microsoft and Yahoo had the same courage as Wikipedia, the same confidence that their search-engines were valuable enough to be indispensible.” (via Boing Boing)

- JH

Quebec Government Launches Study On Anti-Activist Defamation Suits

Published October 9th, 2006 in advocacy, censorship | No Comments »

Quebec Government Launches Study On Anti-Activist Defamation Suits
By Michel-Adrien

This is a follow-up to the August 20, 2006 Library Boy post entitled Quebec Environmental Pioneers Threatened With Being SLAPPed Into Oblivion .

On Friday, the Quebec government announced the creation of an expert panel to look into any possible measures to prevent Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation , or SLAPPs for short.

SLAPPs typically take the form of defamation lawsuits filed by corporations in an attempt to shut down criticism by non-governmental organizations or citizen lobby groups.

As described in the August 20, 2006 post, such a lawsuit has been launched against the Association québécoise contre la pollution atmosphérique, considered one of Canada’s environmentalist pioneers. Since the lawsuit began, the organization has had its insurance policy cancelled and has been turned down by every other insurance company it approached. The association, which was instrumental in bringing about the Canada-US acid rain deal a decade ago, may have to close its doors.

The Quebec expert panel will be lead by Roderick A. Macdonald , the F.R. Scott Professor of Constitutional and Public Law at McGill University.

The panel is to look at the “current rules in Quebec, Canada and the United States with regard to the balance between freedom of expression and the right to one’s reputation (…)”. Should the panel conclude that the state of Quebec law does not allow for a proper balance, it is to propose “avenues of improvement”.

Background on SLAPPs (taken from the August 20, 2006 post):

* SLAPPs: Getting Sued for Speaking Out : “George Pring and Penelope Canan [originated the term] after investigating a range of behaviour that led to legal action against activists, including peaceful demonstrators, seeking signatures for petitions, and even reporting corporate breaches of environmental regulation… They suggest that SLAPPs are not intended to reach the courts (where they typically lose) but are designed to silence criticism through legal intimidation. The goal is to limit public debate and to allow corporations to continue their activities without restriction.”
* Defamation and SLAPPs (Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, University of Ottawa): “The plaintiff’s goal in a SLAPP is not to win the lawsuit, but is rather to silence a critic by instilling fear of large legal costs and the spectre of large damage awards. Despite their right to free speech, critics may be frightened into silence…”
* Corporate Retaliation Against Consumers: The Status of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) in Canada (Public Interest Advocacy Centre): “The report describes a number of lawsuits or threats of a lawsuit in Canada that fit the definition of a SLAPP. This evidence suggests that SLAPPs are very much a Canadian phenomenon and have been initiated against consumers for public criticism of products or services as well as against individuals for advocating on environmental issues. The report briefly analyses the constitutional questions raised by SLAPPs and draws comparisons to the constitutional and judicial treatment of SLAPPs in the United States.”
* California Anti-SLAPP Project : “the Project is a public interest law firm that provides assistance to people on the receiving end of SLAPPs. About half the states in the United States have enacted anti-SLAPP legislation and the website provides links to case law and statutes for California and other states. As well, the site offers other resources, including a bibliography on the issue (updated to 2003) ”
* SLAPP’s in Australia (Center for Media and Democracy Sourcewatch): “The following is the beginning of a list of Australian cases where civil litigation has transformed public debate into legal cases… The Center describes itself as a ‘non-profit, public interest organization that strengthens participatory democracy by investigating and exposing public relations spin and propaganda, and by promoting media literacy and citizen journalism’. Its most well-known project is perhaps the quarterly PR Watch which investigates the public relations or ’spin’ industry.”

- JH (thanks to Cabot for the head’s up and credit to Library Boy which is the source of the original post)

Neil Young and Protest Music

Published July 3rd, 2006 in censorship, other | No Comments »

Here’s a great piece by Stephen Smith-Said, an Iraqi-American songwriter, about protest music, MTV, Billy Bragg, and the future of the free MP3. Here’s a good project for a keen librarian: draw up a list of good old censored music that we can all use as a collection development tool. Enough with the top 40, bring on the other voices!

-S.

Cyber Book Burning?

Published May 20th, 2006 in censorship, open government, public domain | No Comments »

Is that a good term to describe what happens when the new Canadian Minister of the Environment removes existing documents regarding Global Warming from the government’s offical web site? (via Sask Writers Listserv)

J.

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Free Speech and Library Mission

Published March 10th, 2006 in censorship | No Comments »

The CBC reports that «The president of the Islamic Social Services Association of Canada is disappointed with a decision by the City of Winnipeg to place a magazine (the Western Standard) containing controversial cartoons in its library collection.»

Although I don’t personally agree with the publishing of the Mohamet cartoons, one of the library’s roles is to preserve, no matter how odious, the products of our culture. A quick search in most university libraries will give you holdings for the infamous Mein Kampf. This book is an unfortunate (to say the least) part of our history, but it needs to be preserved, in order to prevent similar happenings in the future. Perhaps the same can be said for the cartoons.

(Although… remembering the past to create a better future is not really one of human kind’s strengths.)

“A good library has something to offend everyone”

Published February 23rd, 2006 in censorship | No Comments »

Kim Antieau has written an open letter to the library board of the Fort Vancouver Regional Library to express her anger over the board’s decision to filter the internet on the libary’s computers. It seems as though (although it isn’t explicitly clear in the letter) that the decision was taken in the hopes of getting in return, funding for new library buildings. It sounds like something the Free Range Librarian said yesterday on her blog:

Well, you know what we’re told on ALA Council: it’s a “win” if it doesn’t disrupt library funding.

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