Self Regulation
The nature and rapid evolution of the Internet and e-commerce has provoked debate about the respective roles of government, industry and users in the Internet economy and created heightened interest in the concept of self-regulation. Government regulation or legislation cannot be flexible enough to keep up with the fast pace of technological change occurring on the Internet, nor is it capable of operating across jurisdictions to respond to the international borderless nature of the Internet.
In its 1999 New Media Report, the CRTC noted that the majority of those it had heard from believed that generally-applicable Canadian laws, coupled with self-regulatory initiatives, are the most appropriate means for dealing with offensive content on the Internet. The CRTC called on the ISP industry and its association to continue their efforts to develop codes of conduct and other self-regulatory initiatives to help combat the distribution of inappropriate material. CAIP has embraced this challenge.
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