While the CTRC's policies regulate broadcast content, and what we find in newspapers and magazines is heavily influenced by those who finance them, the web is one of the most accessible places where people can share information and opinion without restriction, produce content, organize social and political action, and take the direction of the internet into their own hands with open source platforms. The internet has the potential to democratize art, literature, learning, ownership and governance--all usually reserved for an elite few. But this is only possible when the right people are appointed to make sure it stays this way--individuals independent of short-term political goals and corporate profit agendas. Copyright laws that favour keeping the power in the hands of big industry players, such as the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Bill C-11, and spying instruments like DPIs used by companies and government alike to limit what can put on the web by criminalizing personal activity will be the demise of how this tool is really meant to be utilized. According to an article in the economist, found here: http://www.economist.com/node/21547235
recent protests in Europe against the agreement may put an end to it. Let's hope!
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