SOCIOL 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: George Orwell, Mass Surveillance, Net Neutrality
30 Mar 2016
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State policy: some current issues in canadian communication policy. Detrimental or harmful if we turn issues over to market sources: impact on content. Homogenizing effect if we allow foreign companies to come in. Loss of canadian content: impact on crtc. Network neutrality: main principle over infrastructure and content, indicates that all network traffic on the internet must be treated equally, regardless of content, ownership, origin, and destination. Practices of companies: telephone and cable companies. Practice internet traffic management practices: technological practices. Internet service providers identify content and limit bandwith associated with certain content: economic practices. Internet service providers charge more for bandwith and speed: these practices are connected to control and profit. Opposition to the practices: barriers to dissemination. Of all kinds of info on the internet. Myth of freedom: democratic communication is being threatened by those who have power to control communication flow, groups involved in campaign for network neutrality such as openmedia (national non- profit organization, crtc action.
