Jon Festinger
News of the Week; January 10, 2018
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY FCC releases final net neutrality repeal order, three weeks after vote: With repeal officially published, FCC will soon face lawsuits. Tech Giants To Join Legal Battle Over Net Neutrality FCC Chair Ajit Pai cancels his CES appearance days before show: Pai likely would have had to answer questions about net […]
Class 3 Slides
Here they are… Jon
Question of the Week (Class 3): What should we do about “fake news”?
With all the noise, concern and misdirection around what has come to be known as “fake news”, it’s easy to lose of not only the legal history of addressing similar, if not identical, issues. What seems odd today is that those who shout “fake news” often seem cynically tactical and rarely seem as interested in […]
Question of the Week (Class 2) Poll
With a little help from the UBC Centre for Teaching, Learning & Technology we now have Polls enabled on this site. With a little luck I’ll have figured out how to enable them and if so a poll on how your feel after our discussions about U.S. Super Bowl commercials on Canadian TV will appear […]
Class 1 & 2 Slides
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Question of the Week (Class 2): U.S. Super Bowl Commercials on Canadian TV – Good, Bad, or Indifferent?
Journalistically one should never “bury your lead”, so the story above (click on it) tells you the current state of play. The CRTC’s (17 page) decision to make removing authorization for simultaneous substitution under it’s regulations can be found below if you are hungering for lots of background detail… The Simultaneous Substitution Regulations can be […]
News of the Week; January 3, 2018
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY No, The Death Of Net Neutrality Will Not Be Subtle Ajit Pai’s FCC is still editing the net neutrality repeal order: Repeal undergoing final changes as FCC prepares for court battle. Now That The FCC Is Doing Away With Title II For Broadband, Will Verizon Give Back The Taxpayer Subsidies […]
News of the Week; December 27, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY Months Later, And People Are Still Discovering Their Dead Loved Ones Were Used To Support Killing Net Neutrality The Heroes We Need: An Overview of Who’s Fighting for and Against Net Neutrality The End of the Internet? What to Expect after the FCC’s 3-2 Vote to Restore Internet Freedom Comcast’s […]
News of the Week; December 20, 2017
MEDIA, COMMUNICATIONS & NET NEUTRALITY Fostering a Vibrant Canadian Programming Market: My CRTC Submission Focusing on Net Neutrality and Rejecting New Taxes, Fees or Content Blocking (Michael Geist) As the U.S. Retreats, Canada Doubles Down on Net Neutrality: “An Open Internet is Critical to Our Democracy” (Michael Geist) Goodbye, net neutrality – Ajit Pai’s FCC […]
