Freedom of Speech: Satellite TV

Satellite restrictions violate Charter, judge rules
theglobeandmail.com, Tu Thanh Ha, Nov 1 ’04

…Last week, a Quebec judge found that federal restrictions on who can provide direct-to-home satellite signals are invalid because they infringe on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms…

… “The fact that otherwise law-abiding people are willing to break the law to access, for a fee, television networks in their language, says a lot about the degree to which the freedom of speech of those viewers has been breached,” the judge wrote…

[Note as of 2014: on the other hand, television propaganda as a tool of social conditioning is a priority for those who rule]

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