Heritage Committee Supports Net Neutrality

The Heritage Committee, which has been on a roll this week after proposing a serious revamp of the CBC has now come out in favour of Net Neutrality rules.

The federal standing committee on Canadian heritage has urged the CRTC to curb interference in internet traffic by service providers such as Bell Canada and Rogers Communications, particularly in the case of the CBC.

Canadian service providers, including Bell and Rogers, have admitted to "bandwidth shaping," or giving priority to certain types of internet traffic over others.

If you are not familiar with the issue and why it is vital to the future of Canadian Media, I'd urge you to check out Dr. Michael Geist's column on the issue as well as neutrality.ca. There is also a fairly large facebook group dedicated to Net Neutrality in Canada at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2257733303.