Cory Doctorow appuie Anne Lagacé Dowson

Comme vous le savez sans doute si vous habitez à Montréal, Anne Lagacé Dowson, mon adversaire/alliée du Combat des livres, a quitté son poste à la CBC pour tenter sa chance comme candidate NPD pour l'élection partielle dans Westmount-Ville-Marie. C'est un défi de taille dans ce comté qui vote libéral depuis 40 ans, mais Anne et le NPD sont confiants de pouvoir répéter l'exploit qu'a été l'élection de Thomas Mulcair dans Outremont, l'an dernier.

Aujourd'hui, Cory Doctorow –– co-rédacteur en chef de Boing Boing et spécialiste des questions de propriété intellectuelle à l'ère numérique -- donne son appui à Anne Lagacé Dowson, en se basant sur les qualités personnelles d'Anne ainsi que la position du NPD en ce qui a trait aux questions numériques.

Dowson pointed out that the NDP is the only federal Canadian party with a dedicated digital affairs critic: the always-sharp Charlie Angus, a former punk musician late of the band L'Etranger, who I used to see headlining punk shows when I was a teenager. Angus and the NDP have led the political criticism of the Tory Bill 61, a Canadian version of America's Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a copyright bill that was drafted in secret, without input from Canadian stakeholders, including coalitions of Canadian creators and music labels.

The NDP has also led the pack on criticising the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, another secretly negotiated proposal, this time for a global treaty on copyright that would dramatically increase the search, seizure and surveillance obligations to Canada and other signatories, forcing them to spy on everyday individuals to protect the profits of a few giant record companies.

Dowson also endorsed the NDP's activism on net neutrality -- Canada's major ISPs, Bell and Rogers, have led the world's Internet companies in a race to the bottom, imposing secret caps, spying on users, blocking protocols, and even blocking downstream ISPs' customers (so that ISPs that buy their backhaul from Bell are subject to the same filtering as Bell's own retail customers).

Le billet de Cory Doctorow.

Comments

[Rédigé par : Julien]

Appuie ou appui?

[Rédigé par : Nicolas Langelier]

«donne son appui» pas de e, merci...