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Over 60,000 People Sign Petition To End Canada’s Telecom Oligopoly

Canadians are calling on the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to end the domination of Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX: RCI.B), BCE Inc (TSX: BCE) and Telus Corporation (TSX: T) over the country’s telecommunications industry.

The campaign, in the form of a Change.org petition started by Nicole Goodmurphy-McCallum, has gathered over 60,300 signatures so far.

This was triggered by a series of recent events that stress the glaring need for telecom competition in the country: first was the proposed merger between Rogers and Shaw Communications (TSX: SJR.B), exacerbated by the massive, 19-hour Canada-wide Rogers outage last month, and then most recently, Telus’ request to charge a 1.5% credit card processing fee on all customer bill payments.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Internet

WEF’s “Global Intelligence Collecting AI” to Erase Ideas from the Internet

The World Economic Forum is becoming a little concerned. Unapproved opinions are becoming more popular, and online censors cannot keep up with millions of people becoming more aware and more vocal. The censorship engines employed by Internet platforms, turned out to be quite stupid and incapable. People are even daring to complain about the World Economic Forum, which is obviously completely unacceptable.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inArtificial Intelligence, Censorship, Internet, WEF

Starting in 15 Minutes! Our Live Webinar on Online Privacy

Please remember that our free educational webinar titled, “5 Ways to Protect Yourself from Big Tech, Big Brother and Thieves Who Spy on You Without your Consent.” is starting soon.

This will be a great class and you’ll get a lot of practical tips on how to stay private and secure online. Also, I will have a live Q&A session in which you can ask questions.

Remember that the class will be tonight at 7pm Central (8pm ET, 6pm MT and 5pm PT).

PLEASE NOTE: I will be starting exactly on time because I want to respect your time, so please don’t be late.

Yes it’s a money making scheme but this seminar is free and all they want is your email address and you can mark them as spam if desired. I’m pretty well protected, using a VPN and proxies when needed, good AV, etc, but you can always learn something new.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inInternet

Take Control of Your Online Privacy – Free Seminar

Not The Bee fans!

Do you ever feel like the government spies on your online activity? Are you not quite sure your passwords are secure? Do you worry about being hacked on Facebook or even worse, your online banking website?

You are not alone.

A February 2021 poll in Security Magazine showed that 75% of Americans are very concerned about online privacy. But the poll also revealed most people won’t take any action to protect themselves beyond updating a password or two.

It’s time to be proactive about your online security and privacy! This is an important subject right now because of the increase in cyber-attacks and ransomware that is flooding the internet. That’s why I’ve asked my friend, Glenn Meder, to educate us about the threat and to give us practical, tangible, bite-sized measures we can take to protect ourselves and help cancel-proof Not The Bee readers.

Please join us for Glenn’s free webinar:

Big Tech And Big Brother Are Deceptively Spying on You.
Here are 5 Ways to Protect Yourself.

FREE ONLINE CLASS
Thursday, July 28th
7pm CT (8pm ET/ 6pm MT/ 5pm PT)

REGISTER NOW

Privacy is your right, and you need to protect it!

Please join us for this very important class. Register now. Registration is limited and I don’t want you to miss out.

You will learn how to… 

  • Protect your passwords from thieves and online scammers
  • Shield your internet activity from Big Brother
  • Prevent cyber attacks

And much more.

Glenn Meder is an online security and privacy expert that teaches thousands of people how to protect themselves from spying, scammers, and thieves.

I’ve asked him to teach Not The Bee readers the basics of online privacy and security. We can’t let Cancel Culture and Big Tech win.

Please RSVP by clicking here.

As a reminder: There are a limited number of seats available. So please confirm your spot ASAP.

Thank you,

Tim Bertram

P.S. I personally asked Glen to host this event for Not The Bee readers. The Bee community must “cancel-proof” ourselves and fight back against Big Tech and Big Brother.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"Cool Stuff", "Surveillance Society", Internet, Privacy Concerns, Public Service Announcements

Feds to mandate telecom companies aid each other in emergencies following Rogers fiasco

“What happened over the weekend would go beyond what we have seen or the type of assistance that could be offered,” said innovation, science and industry minister Francois-Philippe Champagne.

In a closed-door meeting Monday, Champagne gave the CEOs of Rogers, Bell, Telus, Shaw, Quebecor, SaskTel and Eastlink 60 days to come up with an agreement offering mutual assistance amid outages, emergency roaming, as well as the creation of better communication protocols.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Internet

If You Enjoyed The Rogers Outage, You’ll Love A Central Bank Digital Currency

The Rogers outage has revealed many things about Canada.

Our highly-centralized and anti-competitive business landscape has once again shown itself to be a huge risk to our country.

Some Canadians seem to view ruthless market competition as dangerous, when the real danger is the absence of such competition, because it incentivizes mediocrity and low performance.

A single-point-of-failure for a huge swath of our internet and phone services has unsurprisingly turned out to be a terrible idea.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Internet, technology

Rogers hit by wireless and internet outage across Canada

Telecommunications giant Rogers is experiencing a massive outage on Friday morning that is impacting wireless, cable and internet customers across the country.

While the company had not issued any formal communication about the outages as of 8:00 a.m. ET, an online service tracker showed disruptions in locations nationwide. Flanker brands are also affected, including Fido.

The Toronto Police Service tweeted that Rogers customers in that city were having trouble connecting to 911.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inInternet

The Federal Government’s Little Secret: Internet Prices Are Soaring

Unlike the costs of other essential goods such as gas and groceries, Canada’s internet price hikes are not driven by inflation. These rising costs come courtesy of the CRTC and federal government, who have handed pricing power to large telecom companies including Bell and Rogers by refusing to implement lower wholesale rates that smaller firms such as TekSavvy rely on to deliver competitive services to customers.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Economy, Internet

CRTC Chair Ian Scott Confirms Bill C-11 Can Be Used To Pressure Internet Platforms to Manipulate Algorithms

The Senate Standing Committee on Transport and Communications held an exceptionally important hearing as part of its Bill C-11 pre-study (which is about to change into a Bill C-11 study) last night featuring Canadian Heritage officials and CRTC Chair Ian Scott. I will have a second post on the officials, who struggled to provide clear answers to basic questions on everything from how to identify what counts as Cancon for user content (Youtube’s Content ID was suggested) to the absence of thresholds for what is covered by the bill (there are no thresholds and the government wants the ability to also target small streamers). But the key moment of the day came in questioning Scott about the discoverability and the potential for algorithmic manipulation.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship in Canada, Censorship on Social Media, Freedom of speech - at risk in Canada, Internet

Liberals End Debate On The Online News Act

Bill C-18 – the Online News Act – will no longer be debated.

The Liberals – along with the support of the NDP – voted to end debate on the legislation.

As noted by Michael Geist, this means that the Liberal heritage minister – in charge of pushing the legislation – spent more time debating the end of debate on C-18 than he did debating the legislation itself.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship in Canada, Censorship on Social Media, Internet, Justin Trudeau - Pissant

White House may shut down internet in event of ‘apocalypse’, classified file reveals

The papers had been reviewed prior to Bush but took on a new significance in the aftermath of 9/11.

As a result of the FOI, the George W. Bush Pres­id­en­tial Library handed over many of the papers to the non-partisan organization.

At least one of the documents reviewed was designed to implement emergency authorities within Section 706 of The Communications Act, reports the Brennan Center.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inInternet, White House

California parents could soon sue for social media addiction

California could soon hold social media companies responsible for harming children who have become addicted to their products, permitting parents to sue platforms like Instagram and TikTok for up to $25,000 per violation under a bill that passed the state Assembly on Monday.

The bill defines “addiction” as kids under 18 who are both harmed – either physically, mentally, emotionally, developmentally or materially – and who want to stop or reduce how much time they spend on social media but they can’t because they are preoccupied or obsessed with it.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCalifornia, Internet, social media

Trudeau’s internet laws will muzzle his critics

Imagine you woke up one morning to find out your Facebook account had been locked out.

At first you think maybe you got hacked, but when you check your email, you see something from Facebook informing you that, unfortunately, according to the new censorship laws, the status update you posted that contained a criticism of the government was labelled as “hate speech” and “disinformation,” so they were forced to shut your account down.

That may seem like a bit of a wild example, but that possible future is closer than you think.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Censorship, Censorship in Canada, Censorship on Social Media, Freedom of speech, Freedom of speech - at risk in Canada, Internet, Justin Trudeau - Pissant