CRTC Internet Cap in Canada

Just a quick video. I know I need a better camera and Mic... Once I am out of college, I swear. Anyways this is just a video about how the CRTC wants to allow companies to charge exuberant fees for going over the download limit you subscribe to. Think a dollar for every gigabyte. Here is a bit of a diddy about it.

The CRTC won't let me be
Let me download what I want to see
Dollar to four over my cap
Kills the internet on my lap
Less than a cent to give this service
Charging a buck + makes me nervous
Worse the companies also lie
About the bandwidth speeds advertised
But us 150,000 mind and signed
To show where we draw the line
On this anti cash-grab petition
To stop a bill from being in fruition
That allows freedom and choice
Of unlimited internet being our voice
Because we go online and post our stuff
I got to say we don't get enough
This is like attacking net neutrality
When the internet should really be free
So go to the website in the notes
Sign up and be one more vote
Openmedia.ca
I urge you to go there today.

http://openmedia.ca/meter

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[ChaoticAngelKitten]

does anyone else find it ridiculous that they pay 3 cents to give us 1MB of internet but they want to make us pay 1-4 dollars? That's like them selling an item that cost them 3 dollars to make and selling it for $400... I'm so glad they're reversing that whole stupid worthless idea...

[GordonEdward]

@ChaoticAngelKitten Yup, it is super ridiculous what they are trying to charge. Just like charging money for people to RECEIVE text messages on cell phones. It costs less to send a text message to the moon than it does to send a text message to a phone.

[haloguy145]

Did you just say eh?

[GordonEdward]

@haloguy145 Heh, I totally did. Helps prove I am Canadian.

[bbyxazn]

Its only for resellers you idiot

[GordonEdward]

@bbyxazn And they're killing their ability to be competitive "idiot". But if you honestly believe that you should be paying $2.00 a gig, let me be your internet service provider.

[MrSomecrackhead]

@bbyxazn You must be told this all the time though, surely.

[MrSomecrackhead]

@bbyxazn, Jesus christ you're fucking dumb.

[zaboomaflew]

Switch to telus they're not doing it...

[ElementWire]

so they reversed this decision? and also, if they didn't, does it apply to USA?

[haloguy145]

@GordonEdward What part of Canada you from?

[haloguy145]

@GordonEdward I love me some steriotypes!

[GordonEdward]

@WSCybertraders Couldn't agree with you more... Though I am in Western Canada, so less of a pull from them, but more of one from Shaw who jumped on that band wagon of overcharging.