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General => Lobby => Topic started by: Thorin on September 01, 2008, 11:23:07 AM

Title: Misleading headlines for articles
Post by: Thorin on September 01, 2008, 11:23:07 AM
So I saw this headline for an article:

Minister of Industry Stands Up for Consumers on Text Messaging Fees

and I thought, "Yay!"

Then I read the article here: http://www.ic.gc.ca/cmb/welcomeic.nsf/261ce500dfcd7259852564820068dc6d/85256a5d006b97208525749f00625a95!OpenDocument (http://www.ic.gc.ca/cmb/welcomeic.nsf/261ce500dfcd7259852564820068dc6d/85256a5d006b97208525749f00625a95!OpenDocument).  Yeah, the headline is sorta misleading!  "Stand up", to me, means that they're doing something about it, rather than meeting the telcos and meekly requesting to pretty-please-with-a-cherry-on-top think about maybe reconsidering the possibility of charging for unwanted spam text messages but don'tworrythegovernmentwon'tstepin,itsaprivatemarket!
Title: Re: Misleading headlines for articles
Post by: Tom on September 01, 2008, 04:41:53 PM
I think the gov't should step in as much as possible till it really is a free market. Should the telcos want the Gov't to stop stepping in, they should encourage competition and let more competitors jump in, instead of merging and killing competitors.

imo anyhow.