XPost: can.internet.highspeed, can.general   
   From: gwelsh@spamcop.net   
      
   Canuck57 wrote:   
   > Here is a novel idea for the CRTC, why not just let the consumer decide?   
      
   A policy of letting the consumer decide would eliminate the need for the   
   CRTC and no sitting CTRC commissioner, nor any organization who has ever or   
   expects ever to gain from a CRTC ruling would support that.   
      
   From the CRTC's web page, their mandate is "to ensure that both the   
   broadcasting and telecommunications systems serve the Canadian public."  Not   
   Canadian _individuals_, "the Canadian public" as a whole.  Like the Zeroth   
   Law of Robotics used in film and literature to explain how robots can   
   extrapolate a law more important than the Three Laws of Robotics (and   
   therefore permitting them to violate the Three Laws), the CRTC uses their   
   mandate to protect the interests of the Canadian public - as determined, of   
   course, by the CTRC - even if that means acting against the interests of   
   Canadians individually.  And that's exactly what the CRTC does, wholesale.   
   Literally.   
      
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