Canadian metered Internet scandal

[cos]

I wish LJ allowed us to see how answers to two different poll questions correlate by user, but since it doesn't, I'm going to have to combine multiple questions into one in a sort of cross multiplication :)

Q1: Are you aware (before you saw this post and looked it up) of the big deal with unlimited vs. metered Internet in Canada recently?

Q2: Canadian? Either because you currently reside in Canada, or because you used to and still identify at least partly as Canadian.

Q3: American? For the purposes of this poll question, "in the US" means that you're both a resident of the US (you consider it your current home) *and* have spent the majority of your time in the past couple of weeks in the US. If either of these is not true for you, then choose "not in the US".

[Poll #1676736]

P.S. The Harper government will overturn the CRTC's decision that effectively ends "unlimited use" Internet plans if the regulator doesn't rescind the decision itself.

Comments

[lizkayl.livejournal.com]

Admission- I'm only aware of it because of a gReader item from earlier this week where it was announced that it would be cheaper to ship a gB storage container with a movie loaded on it, then it would be to stream it.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

But I know of it b/c of 1) thespian writing about it yesterday, and because 2) I was in the car when CBC radio As It Happens came on last night.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

!!

[lizkayl.livejournal.com]

See (shared Feb 1)

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

In Afghanistan. Saw it on /.

[yix.livejournal.com]

I'm not aware of many current events these days...think of me as the person living under a rock.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Hee! Found elsewhere: http://blog.pault.ag/post/3048351262/i-thought-this-was-clever-as-hell-seriously-data# (cheaper to overnight a movie than to pay the internet download)

[elements.livejournal.com]

I would say I'm only aware of it because of my many Canadian friends, and because of being heavily plugged into internet policy circles. I certainly have only heard about it through social media, not mainstream media.

[cos]

Funny! But it's the same link that lizkayl put in her comment.

[miraclaire.livejournal.com]

I get most of my news from the Globe (second most common source: NPR) and haven't heard a thing about it. Of course, I also started back at work this week so I'm listening to the news a lot less (and my newspaper never shows up if there's a significant amount of snow).

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

D'oh! Now I feel very silly -- I got the comment notification from LizKayl, forgot where I'd commented to her, figured it had to be somewhere other than in your journal since you're Bostonish and she's not, and, well, there you go.

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

By which I assume you mean the (Boston) Globe, because if you got most of your news from the Globe (& Mail), you would be well aware of this. ;-)

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

I have to admit to only being dimly aware of it from headlines and social media; I haven't read any of the actual news articles.

[lizkayl.livejournal.com]

Both rushputin and arashinomoui shared it on gReader. I have worldly friends.

Thank Boingboing

[drwex]

they cover Canadian Internet news fairly regularly and I read about it there.

[lizkayl.livejournal.com]

If you forget what this post was and just skip to the answers,

"Canadian, and aware of it." and
"Canadian, and not aware of it."

are HILARIOUS.

[cos]

Those Canadians are really stealthy, they blend in! Maybe they blend in a little *too* well...

[miraclaire.livejournal.com]

Yes, sorry for not being clear :)

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Ditto on #1.

[catness.livejournal.com]

I'm aware of it because of jokes about it, only, including the link posted above.

[redhotlips.livejournal.com]

I'm a Cannuck who still reads the Canadian papers and listens to CBC online, despite being in the US for the last year, so ya, I'm aware of it.

[sparr0.livejournal.com]

To be more precise, it would be cheaper to BUY an SSD, ship it, and then throw it away.

[kumokasumi.livejournal.com]

In Vancouver but I admit I haven't been following the blow-by-blow and I'm a little bit confused, mostly what I understand the regulator's decision to be seems totally absurd to me -- they want to set a national minimum rate for data transfer for home broadband?

[elfy.livejournal.com]

I read about it yesterday or so in merets linkpost.