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join:2003-12-15
 ·Bell Sympatico
| What an ignorant statement! No socialist or social democrat, aside from a few right-wing sham parties in the "Socialist" International and that Hoxhaist party in Venezuela that engaged in political killing to assist the attempted right-wing coup against Chavez, would ever argue that consumer rights ought to sacrificed in the name of corporate profit and corporate control. Certain Stalinists and other authoritarians, who are about as representative of socialist and social democratic thought in Canada as Hitler is a representative of the Conservative Party, would advocate Internet censorship for very different reasons, but such ideological questions are not relevant when comparing the behaviour of regulatory bodies and the set of regulations they are mandated to enforce in two different mixed-economy states. When it comes to issues of sensible copyright law, consumer protection, and network neutrality, the NDP, along with certain factions of the Green Party, the BQ, and even *shudders* the Liberal Party, is far more favourable to the interests of the Canadian people than the neo-liberal interests that comprise the Conservative Party and the more rightist factions of the Liberal Party. Canada has the benefit of having a fairly vibrant social-democratic left that has not been corrupted by the interests of the elites in Hollywood and the entertainment industry, the same of which cannot be said of the United States, where everyone within 10 feet of the Democratic Party, Kucinich and Sanders excepted, is bought and sold by these crooks. |
