Fighting the Corps!
Once again, the NDP are the champion of the average Canadian.
Cell phone carriers Telus and Bell are going to be, next month charging their users for every incoming text message, spam or not. Each of these messages will cost 15-cents. The problem with this is that the person receiving has no control over the messages that he or she will receive and the person sending it likely already has a plan to cover it or they don’t mind stomaching the cost of sending a single message.
By this logic, spammers will already be paying for a plan and it would likely cover the process of sending an unlimited number of messages. The receiver doesn’t want spam. We hate it in our mail, we hate it in our blogs, we hate it in our email. We hate it period. So why should we have to pay for this? I’ll tell you why; some poor CEO is only able to afford one luxury vacation this year instead of two.
Fortunately for Canadians, despite our very closed market, we do have two options, Rogers (the least of the three evils) and my preferred carrier Virgin (who I am currently with an enjoying an incredible cell phone plan because they don’t feel the need to gauge me at every turn).
Of course, this doesn’t change the fact that we as Canadians are being just plain fucked over because the Conservatives don’t want to open up the market to foreign competition, which would drastically reduce our dependence on these large oligopolies.
Even if we don’t open our market, we as consumers deserve protection from unscrupulous corporations out to make an easy buck.
Even if you don’t fundamentally agree with the NDP on most issues, I believe this is one time when you will want to. Do yourself a favour and visit the link at the top of this entry. Click on the nice picture. You know you want to.
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