News of the Week; March 6, 2019
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY Democrats’ net neutrality bill would fully restore Obama-era FCC rules AT&T Begins Trying To Screw Up HBO In Earnest HBO CEO Richard Plepler, Who Forever Shifted TV Landscape, Abruptly Steps Down HBO boss quits as owner AT&T seeks more shows and more profit “The AT&T Guys, At The End Of […]
The Gendering of Personal Assistants: Talk by Dr. Rachel Adams
A.I. is here and growing. The future of A.I. as both an engine of communications technologies and as a middleware interface to communicate with us is hard to doubt. A fascinating thing about technology which comes up again and again is how, no matter what the objective choices might be, we have the marked tendency […]
Question of the Week (Class 7): Will your mobile phone bills decrease?
This past week the Liberal government issued a Direction to the CRTC to emphasize competition, affordability, consumer interests, and innovation in its decisions. The hope, plainly, is that mobile phone bills which as we have previously seen are on average second highest in the world, will decrease. Stories (click on to read) and the Direction […]
Regulating Social Media: New Cigarettes, Cyberbullying, Censorship, Conspiracy Theories, and Nature of the Platforms
Hi everyone, as the title suggests, we will put social media on trial during our presentation this week. We would like to explore the arguments for and against imposing regulations on these platforms as well as potential regulatory solutions. The issues to be covered include: 1. Are social media addictive and harmful just like cigarettes […]
Russia wants to unplug its internet from the rest of the world. Is that even possible?
Russian lawmakers want to tighten the screws on Russia’s internet access by creating an “sovereign” network that the Kremlin could shut off from the greater World Wide Web. Proponents of a bill now working its way through the Russian parliament say passing the measure will protect the country’s internet from foreign cyberattacks or other threats. […]
News of the Week; February 27, 2019
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY Enough is Enough: Bains Proposes CRTC Policy Direction Grounded in Competition, Affordability, and Consumer Interests (Michael Geist) Proposed Order Issuing a Direction to the CRTC on Implementing the Canadian Telecommunications Policy Objectives to Promote Competition, Affordability, Consumer Interests and Innovation The CRTC Opens a Penske File: Chair Ian Scott Commits […]
Net Neutrality: Utility, Economics, Zero-Rating and the Canadian Response
Hi everyone. This week Jonathan, Jade, Jonah, and Dylan will be discussing net neutrality. We will look at whether or not the internet should be considered a utility, arguments for and against and offering comparisons with other utilities. There will be a discussion on the economic effects of net neutrality, and what the positive and […]
GDPR and Techdirt: Thomas Goolnik Gets Google To Forget A Story About Him Getting Google To Forget Stories About Thomas Goolnik
Building upon some of the issues discussed in our group presentation on Tuesday. Google v Costeja González (C-131/12 (2014)) declared Google was a “data controller.” As a result of this declaration, Google is required to remove data on a person which is “inadequate, irrelevant, or no longer relevant.” This articulation of the law created a […]
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