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New Democratic Party PM Candidate Praises P2P

By soulxtc

PM candidate Jack Layton notes importance of net neutrality and how social networking and BitTorrent sites are "fundamental to making a democracy work" and for "helping human intelligence to be shared and exchanged." I sadly know very little about Canadian politics other than conservative Stephen Harper is the Prime Minister. So it was certainly interesting to watch a message that New Democratic Party candidate Jack Layton gave to P2PNet readers recently that emphasized the importance of P2P. "People to people, that's the way we want to use the Internet," he says of P2P. Layton notes the importance of net neutrality and the danger of big corporations threatening the ability of Canadian citizens to freely use the Internet.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on October 13, 2008 (boomark / email).