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Jason Laszlo (Bell spokesman)'s real thoughts on this issue

I'd say so what as there is oviously no image there... (Either filtered or my company does not allow access to imageshack...)

Do you know of any alternate picture sites that might work for you? I want as many people as possible to see this picture.

reply to Jamesy

That works fine.

reply to Jamesy
I can see the image. If you guys can't Bell must be throttling your connection to the site haha ; ) I REALLY like that his political beliefs are listed as "very liberal". That must be sarcasm.

Someone should email this image to Matt Hartley who's been writing the Globe and Mail stories on this.

reply to Jamesy
Think his position will last? I call cannon fodder.

reply to Jamesy
good photo for rocky to print off and give to the lawyers showing the Bell VP flaunting his position.

Hell give it to the CRTC & Industry Canada as well.

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reply to Jamesy
awesome - I just reposted this as a comment on the CBC story he's quoted in and linked back here. Please everyone: EVERY article Laszlo is quoted in that you come across quote him saying this and provide the link back to this thread. I guess Bell's going to need a new spokesperson starting next week.

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reply to Jamesy
Oh come on. Is this even the guy's real page?

His own profile says

Work Info
Employer: Bell Canada
Position: Associate Director, Media Relations
Location: Toronto, ON
Description: Promote and Protect.

He's got 136 friends, one of whom recently posted on his Facebook wall saying "Ouch. Them's fightin words. SOME journalists - me, for example I humbly submit - can think for themselves. I heard you on CBC radio yesterday... you sounded great."

So yeah, it's really him.

reply to HeadSpinning
I'm fairly certain that is a real Facebook profile, I found the guy on Facebook myself and things match up. I'm skeptical that's really him though, he graduated class of '05 and he's already associate director? But the post on his wall from a friend is really there.

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reply to Jamesy
Jokes aside, I would *really* appreciate if anyone can post links to articles or statements by anyone at Bell that deal with the issue of having to throttle to prevent a few downloaders from messing with the rest of the users.

This is a very critical point to bring to the competition bureau since it gives them lots of meat to chew on with regards to Bell's ads that say that users of DSL can download Videos and Music without impacting other users in the neighbouhood.

reply to dontknowifitis
If thats really him, and he posted that...tell me again how Bell didn't know *exactly* what they were doing here?

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reply to Jamesy
I just sent the following to Matt Hartley:

Your recent article on internet traffic management completely missed the point about Bell Canada's decision to interfere with the services it provides to third party DSL wholesalers.

There is no evidence that Bell's decision to throttle service provided to wholesalers has anything to do with preserving capacity on Bell's network. Rather, it's a fairly simple case where Bell has used its position as a monopoly provider of last mile DSL service to prevent any DSL ISP from offering better service than Bell's retail DSL ISP arm (Sympatico) chooses to offer. While there is no evidence of Bell deliberately crippling third party DSL ISPs, the definite *effect* of Bell's policy is to tilt the playing field such that no Bell competitor can offer better service than Sympatico chooses to offer.

Furthermore, Bell's wholesale throttling effects far more than P2P users. There are many reports on the dslreports.com Teksavvy forum[1] of people who have been unable to access work-related electronic resources from home, properly use online banking, use internet telephone services, or play online games, because Bell's throttling system is so badly implemented that it can't distinguish these normal, low-bandwidth, *and incontrovertibly legal* activities from P2P filesharing.

Calling wholesale ISP throttling a mere capacity issue related to P2P traffic completely whitewashes the issues involved. Bell Canada is the only one who benefits from this. Indeed, Bell spokesman Jason Laszlo's appears to be so happy about the way this issue has played out in the media that at 1:14pm on Saturday, Laszlo's facebook status page indicated that he was "realizing how little seperates (sic) most journalists from lemmings." [2]

I strongly urge you to spend some time researching the ultimate effects of Bell's decision to throttle wholesale ISPs--start by reading [1] for a few hours--and write a follow up piece as soon as possible.

Regards,
Coridon Henshaw,
Communications liberties activist,
Ottawa.

[1] »TekSavvy

[2] A screen capture can be found here: »Jason Laszlo (Bell spokesman)'s real thoughts on this issue

reply to mazhurg
I have to say, I didn't actually go to the Facebook site - I just looked at the image. It just seemed so over the top that it had to be fake. If it IS real, then we know what kind of person we're dealing with.