Description: In a move that can have strong implications for the internet media in Canada, Netflix refused to hand over information that the company considers sensitive – like the number of subscribers Netflix has in Canada, and how much money it earns from them – to Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).

Source: BNN

Date: September 23, 2014

Video Link: http://www.bnn.ca/News/2014/9/23/How-Netflix-and-Canadas-broadcast-regulator-arrived-at-a-deadlock.aspx

Questions for Discussion:

1. What is the role of government in regulating internet companies in Canada?
2. Discuss the arguments put forth by Netflix and CTRC?
3. Whose arguments do you side with and why?