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The beauty of technology is it provides people with choice.

Until some outfit like the CRTC decides what's good for you that is. And in Canada, we're getting screwed on a few levels. From high mobile prices to the lack of access to U.S. products. In Canada, everything is tightly regulated. It stablizes things but it also weeds out competition and monopolizes our markets. The customer doesn't win necessarily on a price level. Hence, why savvy shoppers head for Plattsburgh, Vermont and outlet shops down south. I certainly don't pay Canadian prices on certain items.

It's no secret most people want access to American media and entertainment sources. There's absolutely no comparison in terms of choice and production value despite what some Canadians may think. For example, go out and look at what you get from Direct TV or Netflix in the U.S. Now come back up here. It's pitiful.

We have a lot. But we don't have a lot more.

We can't even get Hulu for some reason. We have to pay for the best channel on TV today in HBO.

That annoys me because there's no good reason for this. No one seems able to explain this.

Today, I asked a tech savvy person if there's a way to get Google USA.

The only way, I was told, is to rerout from a U.S. based IP address into yours.

If you work for an American based company, chances are you get Google USA. If not, the masters that be put you to Google Canada. When I was in France, it was Google France - yikes!

I sometimes feel like a Russian looking for American rock'n roll records on the black market during the insidious Soviet Union years. Good times.

"American rock'n roll. Chuck Berry, yeah?"