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Canada's Heritage Minister caught covering up "radical extremists" slur
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| Michael Geist sez, "Yesterday there was a
| firestorm of discussion over Canadian Heritage
| Minister James Moore's speech (which was
| promoted by his department in advance) in
| which he labeled critics of Bill C-32 [ed: the
| Canadian version of the US Digital Millennium
| Copyright Act] 'radical extremists' and urged
| confrontation against those who argue for fair
| copyright, which he said is really an attempt
| to mislead and oppose the bill. Almost lost
| amidst the considerable outrage from many
| people over Moore's comments, was the
| possibility that there was an attempt to bury
| the 'radical extremist' comment. Moore himself
| denied making the comment in direct messages
| with several people on Twitter who expressed
| concern about it.
|
| "By mid-morning yesterday, attendees were not
| confirming the comment, Moore was denying it,
| and the event video did not include it. That
| might have been the end of the story, but IT
| World Canada reporter Brian Jackson compiled
| his own video of the event and posted it
| online. The Jackson video included the
| reference and made it clear that Moore was not
| being forthright in his private claims (the
| event organizer site later added the same
| video). The lack of candor is rather rich
| given that Moore's comments tried to paint
| critics of the bill as misleading the public."
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/24/canadas-heritage-min-1.html
Was There An Attempt to Bury Moore's "Radical Extremist" Comment?
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5142/125/
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If you're Canadian, you use Linux and you like multimedia, you're about to become a criminal.
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| This is a kind of crosspost summary of a
| new copyright amendment bill that was
| announced yesterday. Bill C-32 attempts to
| 'modernize' copyright law in Canada to
| bring it up to spec with other developed
| nations (aka to meet US agenda).
|
| The bill would make it illegal to
| circumvent or break locks of any kind on
| digital media, even for personal use. This
| supersedes all other provisions of the
| bill, which means you may be a criminal if
| you
|
| * Own and play region-locked DVDs from
| other countries
| * Play regular DVDs on Linux
| * Play Blu-Ray Discs on Linux
| * Transfer media to an iPod Touch /
| iPhone / iPad using Linux
| * Listen to DRM'd music on Linux
|
| And anything else that involves protected
| content that lacks official Linux support.
|
| Speak up while you can. Find your MP and
| write them an email telling them why you
| are opposed to C-62.
|
| We don't want a US style DMCA, please
| don't let that happen.
|
| Edit: Android is also Linux, so this
| applies to all of you Android users too!
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http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/cb2w4/if_youre_canadian_you_use_linux_and_you_like/
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