Canuck E Stan Posted January 28, 2007 Report Posted January 28, 2007 Is that your cellphone in your pocket...? The telecommunications company Telus Corp. began offering adult content to its Canadian cellphone customers this month.Available on a "pay-per-download" basis, the service introduced on Jan. 8 will allow cellphone users to download pornographic photographs and videos, charging them an average of $3 to $4 for each item. Jim Johannsson, a Telus spokesman, said yesterday that pornographic material was already widely available on mobile phones equipped with Internet browsers. "So we've introduced -- in a very responsible way -- adult content that's in behind proper age verification and that's compliant with provincial standards and regulations," he said. Should the CRTC regulate this to make sure it abides by the 35% Canadian content rule? CRTC Canadian content A major motivation is the fear that without a regulatory system, independent Canadian popular culture would be swallowed up by that of the neighboring United States. However, the policy has been criticized by other commentators as cultural protectionism. Quote "Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over 30 who is not a conservative has no brains." — Winston Churchill
Who's Doing What? Posted January 29, 2007 Report Posted January 29, 2007 Should the CRTC regulate this to make sure it abides by the 35% Canadian content rule? Most certainly. Quote Harper differed with his party on some key policy issues; in 1995, for example, he was one of only two Reform MPs to vote in favour of federal legislation requiring owners to register their guns. http://www.mapleleafweb.com/election/bio/harper.html "You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society." (Stephen Harper, Report Newsmagazine, January 22, 2001)
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