Some smart cookies from Telus decided to block access for all their customers, and some, to a pro union web site (Voices For Change - www.voices-for-change.com). What were they thinking?

First of all, this is going to back fire really bad since this is a gross human rights violation. Second, this way they just draw lots of attention to Voices for Change.

Some side effects of this blocking were the fact that they also blocked 766 other sites and that smaller ISPs that are using the Telus network were also blocking their customer's access (and it was not the decision of these small ISPs).

This incident just shows how bad it is to privatize (aka create instant monopolies) infrastructure. And our "liberal" government still goes at it like crazy, trying to sell whatever they can :-(

If something like this happens again use one of the anonymous surfing services mentioned: www.surfshield.net or www.anonymizer.com.

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