Saturday, July 11, 2009

An intrusive but arguably reasonable synapse adjustment inside the brain of an unamed CRTC Commissioner.

Officials of Truth and Reconciliation on the Internet Pogrom (TRIP) denied rumours that they had been involved in any redactive intervention resulting in an intrusive but arguably reasonable synapse adjustment inside the brain of an unamed CRTC Commissioner. Speaking on behalf of the Canadian Human Left Commission, in turn commenting off-record on behalf of unamed CRTC spokespersons, TRIP suggested that reports that parts of the text of the CRTC New Media decision had disappeared were false. "Only ISPs shape or otherwise degrade content online, just ask anyone on Twitter" said the Tripster spokesperson to requests for comments from from Dogs Ran Free.

Dogs Ran Free became curious about allegations of brainshaping when reports surfaced from a July 8 post of Mr.Stephen Taylor that a paragraph containing the following comments had been digitally erased from our conciousness. The paragraph attributed to a loquatious CRTC Commissioner ,assuming it had ever existed,which, according to sources, it didn't because it does not exist on the CRTC site today and therefore cannot have existed in the past without offending the laws of physics, would have stated:

"The history of the regulation of speech in this country does not engender confidence that such powers will be used wisely. Canada has experienced several instances in recent times where regulatory commissions of another type and armed with a different mission have challenged the right to say controversial things. The struggles of Ezra Levant, Mark Steyn and others have served as important warnings that regulatory authorities charged with combating racism, hatred, and other evils have consistently expanded their mandates, have abused their powers and eroded fundamental liberties. Wherever there is official orthodoxy, disagreement is heresy, and where there is heresy, there is usually an inquisition to root it out. After centuries ridding ourselves of thought control agencies, 20th century Canada re-invented them"

According to TRIP (but not for attribution) no one can seriously believe a government document would ever have contained such right wing twaddle to begin with. And if it it had then surely the Globe or Post would have covered it rather than MJs funeral. "We dont know who this wanker Taylor is" said TRIP "But dont blame us if he gets a visit from CISIS."

Attempts to reach CBC were unsuccessful as it was rumoured CBC was too busy not working this weekend to erase wafergate footage from the web. "Bull, they did that last week" alleged the TRIP spokesman.

CTV claimed no knowledge of any of this, since they cannot afford to do news unless people give them more money. "This never could not have happened without due process " said CTV " We love the CRTC . They are going to give us lots of money from the cable guys,(who probably blocked the paragraph to begin with) and then we will cover important events like Canadian Idol again"

TRIP confirmed that "the redaction that wasn't" rumour was likely started by serial traffic shapers like Bell and Rogers, in order to shift the blame for the collapse of the Internet and free speech from their practices to the CRTC and other elements of government tasked to ensure peace ,order and good government.

Canada's security services suggested there is nothing they can do to confirm or deny all these rumors until Parliament passes legislation to allow them to sniff the web.

A spokesperson for TELUS suggested that it had no idea what what the fuss was about. "If that were true it certainly does not seem the least restrictive way of thought-shaping. However we never read these descision anyways, they just bum us out. We get our opinions shaped by Twitter"

1 comment:

  1. That was hillarious! The perfect complement for what has at times felt like a circus of a public hearing.

    I sit in the "reasonable middle ground" of this debate, which unfortunately seems to take polar points of view far too often (the us-vs-them mentality inaccurately reduces the issue). Like other polarizing topics of our time, this one is ripe for some "reasonable" ridicule.

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