Canadian ISPs Speak Out Against Net Neutrality

Ars Technica reports on a proceeding being held by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission regarding net neutrality. They requested comments from the public as part of the debate, and several Canadian ISPs took the opportunity to explain why they think it's a bad idea. Quoting: "One of the more interesting responses came from an ISP called Videotron, which told the CRTC that controlling access to content ... 'could be beneficial not only to users of Internet services but to society in general.' As examples of such benefits, Videotron mentioned the control of spam, viruses, and child pornography. It went on to suggest that graduated response rules — kicking users off the 'Net after several accusations of copyright infringement — could also be included as a benefit to society in general. ... Rogers, one of Canada's big ISPs, also chimed in and explained that new regulations might limit its ability to throttle P2P uploads, which it does at the moment. 'P2P file sharing is designed to cause network congestion,' says the company. 'It contributes significantly to latency, thereby making the network unreliable for certain users at periods of such congestion.'"

Re:Stop overselling

[Anonymous Coward]

We need an article on why Canadian ISP's are a bad thing.

Re:"Designed"?

[Anonymous Coward]

p2p was designed to cause congestion in the same way that cars were designed to cause traffic jams.

A CAR ANALOGY! Woohoo! It all makes sense now.

Re:want the old slashdot back?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sometimes I'm an idiot! I do sincerely apologize for these occasions, like just now.

Re:o, canada...

[Kell Bengal]

And with the highest incarceration rate in the world, they are also "Land of the free".

Mod insult up

[Esteanil]

Grandparent clearly deserves it.

Re:Tubes...

[tkw954]

Maybe we should make the tubes owned by a public company that leases lines to ISPs rather than letting Rogers, Bell and all these other companies do it.

Saskatchewan has Sasktel, which is a government owned utility, providing phone and internet to both retail and wholesale providers. I've never had better rates, service or polices with any other telco and I would be very surprised if they tried to pull any of these tactics. But we should probably privatize them and let the market work it out.