scary things at CRTC

[Madison Kelly]

Mr Chris Aitken wrote:
> Well, a Christian organization that I have had no reason to mistrust (I 
> can just /hear/ the obvious retort to /that/) has alerted me that the 
> CRTC is trying to change that. So, if I put up a website called 
> truthasrevealedinthebible.com I also have to include pages in there (or 
> links or whatever) of completely opposing views. The commercial 
> equivalent of this would be if coca-cola.com had to host pages and links 
> to pepsi.com. I fear this thread will get ugly pretty quickly now (not 
> my intention), so I'll withdraw until I've contacted the CRTC myself. 
> Though, I'm sure someone will invoke a certain dead despot before this 
> thread gets really out of hand.
> 
> :)
> 
> Chris

[Citation Needed]

Here's the thing... GTALUG, like many tech groups, are composed of 
fairly intelligent people who've been fed enough lines to be quite 
skeptical of unsubstantiated claims and rumours.

A while back, Focus on the Family had a form on their page and were 
encouraging people to use it to send angry letters to some company or 
another why supported gay marriage among their employees. Fark got hold 
of the URL and posted it, suggesting people use it to mail-bomb their 
support to said company. I did that, and in doing so got forever on 
their mailing list. Like damnation, they feel that once they've got you...

Anyway, to the point, I now get their Action Alerts and often they have 
something to do with queer-ness of some sort. Their unhealthy obsession 
aside, it's easy to tell that their alerts are often full of crap. Sure, 
they cite sources, but those sources are simply equally biased.

So when it comes to religious, government or similar conspiracy 
theories, you will find groups like GTALUG more reception when you cite 
sources.

Madi
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