Netflix refuses CRTC demand

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Netflix lauded for CRTC spat
Re Netflix refuses CRTC demand for confidential data,
Sept. 23/2014
Wow! Finally a nice, brutal fight developing over Canada's tight-fisted broadcasting regulations. Netflix has responded to the CRTC's bullying tactics of last week with a forceful uppercut to chairman Jean-Pierre Blais' unenforceable bluff.
Blais referred to an "exemption order" that controls Netflix's activities in Canada. Exemption from what? Netflix is clearly exempt from Canadian laws (and "orders") because it does not live in Canada. Will Canada (or the CRTC) take measures to control the Internet? Our Prime Minister says no.
Many witnesses to last week's hearings were duly impressed by the forceful presentation by Netflix representative, Corie Wright, on behalf of the very popular American program distributor. She never hesitated to praise a free-enterprise system of TV that has the ability to please customers without the interference of government regulators. If s obvious why the CRTC chairman was upset with this articulate, bright and persuasive woman who stood-up for American enterprise.
Perhaps a counterpunch from the CRTC will involve a method of blocking foreign TV images in the same way that Russia blocked foreign signals from its citizens during the Cold War. This is developing nicely into a real "freedom of information" issue and the protection of the Internet from a government bureaucracy.

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