This news item on Yahoo Canada threw me for a loop. Since when did the USA become a facist state? Did I miss the memo?
Remeber America? The place of liberty & freedom of choice.
There are many more examples but this just goes to show you where America is headed.
Unlocking your cell phone becomes illegal in the U.S. today
“UNLOCK YOUR IPHONE - $20” proclaim signs in front of shady electronics stores across North America. Soon, those signs will be a thing of the past south of the border, because as of Saturday, unlocking your phone in the United States is a crime.
Contrast that paragraph with a paragraph about Canada at the end.
As for what this means for Canadians, it looks like we’re pretty safe. The unlocking of cell phones in Canada is deemed a legal practice based on Bill C-343 or the ‘Cell Phone Freedom Act.’ According to the act, any phone can be legally unlocked in Canada at the end of a service contract by the provider, free of charge, if the phone was bought at a discounted rate (which is how many of us get out smartphones in Canada). If you don’t enter into a contract for at least six months or if you pay the full price of the phone, the provider must remove any network lock free of charge at your request.
Here is the link for the news story.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/right...mt-container-b
Anybody else notice the direction that America is taking, or that just the view from up north?
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