Netflix exec: Canada's broadband caps "almost a human rights violation"

25 Sep 2013 • gigaom.com

“It’s almost a human rights violation what they’re charging for internet access in Canada,” Sarandos said during the Merrill Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment conference in Los Angeles Wednesday.

Sarandos was referring to the low broadband caps in place at Canadian ISPs like Bell and Shaw, which force their customers to pay more if they exceed monthly caps that can start at just 15 GB.

So glad he said "almost".  Sounds pretty awful, but we have a lot worse human rights violations to worry about in the world than Canada's low broadband data caps.