Internet Throttling: Time for Bell to Face Competition Bureau

I'm not a Bell customer nor ever have, so I'm unable to spearhead this, but hopefully someone will file a much publicized competition bureau complaint against their clear violation of Canadian laws respecting competition (restricting network signals from 3rd parties is a clear violation). See story.

I've blogged on my support of Neutrality before, but imagine if Canada Post decided to delay envelopes from certain customers because they were frequent writers. I fully appreciate that their needs to be limits on usage due to technological limitations, but networks who have been allowed to form monopolies on distribution, must not be allowed to be the judge and jury of what crosses their lines. If they insist on restricting service, then perhaps its time to look at returning transmission lines and end user distribution points to communities.

I will also give credit to Charlie Angus of the NDP for raising this in the House of Commons. Mr. Angus been fairly good on both neutrality and copyright issues.

I've had some issues in the past with legislation put forward by Peter Stoffer in requiring internet licensing for all ISPs, but recently Charlie has been on top of the ball.