Bell stoops to an all new low

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Published on Sunday, 29 November -0001 16:00

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SHOCKING: We just learned that Bell met secretly with the CRTC last summer to push website blocking -- months before the public was notified about the proposal.

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SHOCKING NEWS: We've just learned... that Bell secretly lobbied the CRTC last summer to push its website blocking proposal -- months before the proposal was publicly filed.1

It's obvious that Bell asked to meet with the CRTC privately because it knew the public would hate the proposal. So it tried to get the CRTC bought into the plan before you even knew about it.

This is just the latest example of how Bell will do anything, no matter how underhanded, to ram through their Internet blocking plan. We're sounding the alarm to stop them from enacting website blocking through NAFTA, the Copyright Review, or any other scheme Bell tries.

Will you chip in to help stop Bell's website blocking plan?

Bell's mandatory website blocking plan would create an Internet censorship committee empowered to create a blacklist of websites that all Internet service providers would be required to block.

It's a blatant violation of the most basic principles of Net Neutrality and freedom of expression.

But Bell will stop at nothing to get their website blocking plan enacted.

First, Bell is trying to get website blocking written into NAFTA. In case that doesn't work, they've been pitching the CRTC. And if the CRTC rejects the company, Bell's lobbyists could still push to get website blocking written into law as part of the Copyright Review.

Worse yet, Bell is trying to undermine the immense public resistance its proposal has faced by, for example, suggesting many of the over 100,000 public comments sent to the CRTC by engaged individuals like you were fraudulent.2

Will you chip in to help stop Bell's website blocking plan?

These guys play dirty, but we won't be bullied -- and we can win because the public is on our side.

We've already mobilized people like you to attend in-person public consultations, and we're building user-friendly online tools to help tens of thousands more participate in Canada's Copyright Review. We're also working to ensure OpenMedia representatives are directly involved in these consultations to fend off Bell's proposals to censor the Internet.

Will you make a donation today to help save Net Neutrality in Canada and stop Bell's website blocking plan?

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Thanks for standing with us,

Katy, and the whole team at OpenMedia.

Footnotes:
[1] Fair Play for FairPlay?: Bell Presented Its Site Blocking Plan to the CRTC Months Before It Became Public: Michael Geist
[2] Bell-Led Fairplay Canada Coalition Responds To Critics In Formal Response to CRTC: Canadian Tech News

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