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[Alex Nuta <alex.nuta AT protonmail.com>]

Greetings from Canada.

I found this project because, before creating it myself, I wanted to see if someone had beat me to it. Well done.

I decided to do this myself following the news that several top telecommunications corporations in Canada are planning to create a blocking list with no oversight or supervision controlled by three major players in the telecommunication and content production market.  They are currently lobbying government to discuss the matter in secret talks as part of international treaties. Yes, we've seen this before. Yes, they're at it again.
I have no doubt that sooner or later, one of these initiatives will pass in the US or Canada, and soon.

Ostensibly these measures are intended to curb copyright infringement, but behind it, it's fairly clear, is to create an uneven playing field in the content providing business heavily stacked in favour of the companies controlling the block list, and turn the Internet into Cable TV all over again.

And, in my opinion, it won't stop there. The Quebec provincial government has already asked that all gambling sites be blocked province-wide, putting up a fence, in effect, since it has a local monopoly on gambling through its commercial Loto-Quebec venture, next will likely be alcohol sales, since the Quebec government assumed a monopoly on alcohol sales province-wide, and I can easily see governments labelling dissidents and other social activists with some kind of terminology which gets them on the block list to silence dissent.

Together the top three corporations involved control 50% of the ISP market in Canada.

In this context, OpenNIC becomes a potential solution, and I intend to publicize it to my social media audience (mainly nerds, systems administrators, networking specialists and social activists.) 

I would be interested in any available less technical information, infographics, or similar materials to educate the non-technical among the group to stimulate end-user adoption. I'll make my own if nothing like this is available. 

I will also set up a few servers ASAP, after reviewing the documentation, one located at my office, one in my home office and another in my data centre.

Also, I work in marketing, and if I can lend assistance in that department to get the word out, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

Alex Nuta

alex.nuta AT protonmail.com

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