We shouldn’t think it is common sense that the web is used to further business and has become corporately run-therefore can only be used for economic gain. If we begin to look at the web as it potentially has the power to be, we can turn it around for the betterment our society and to our own personal benefit-leaving space for social and educational gain.
The CTRC has strict policy on broadcast content, newspapers and magazines are heavily influenced in content by those who finance them (companies advertising their businesses), and the web is one of the most accessible places where people can share information and opinion without restriction, criticize, and take the direction of the internet into their own hands with open source platforms. The internet can democratize art, literature, learning, ownership and governance-all usually reserved for an elite few. But only if the right people are appointed to make sure it stays this way-individuals independent of short-term political goals and corporate profit minded agendas. Copyright laws that favour keeping the power in the hands of big industry players, such as Bill C-11, and spying instruments like DPIs used by companies to limit what you can put on the web by criminalizing personal activity will be the demise of how this tool is really meant to be utilized.
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