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Open Media says that it is working to advance and support an open and innovative communications system in Canada. Back in February, I wrote a post at this blog in which I tried to raise questions about whether what Open Media is doing is charity or lobbying. This post raises a follow-up question: Is Open Media is a project of Tides Canada? Or isn't it?
In a letter that I received from Tides Canada's lawyer, he says, "Tides Canada does not fund Open Media" and "Open Media is not a project of Tides Canada." I find this statement difficult to reconcile with some of the information that I have previously seen at the web-site of Open Media so when I received the lawyer's letter, I tried to go back to the original web-pages where I had seen the information that led me to believe that donations for Open Media were being accepted by Tides Canada. That web-page is now gone. The URL for that web-page is http://openmedia.ca/donation-media-democracy. As shown below, the web-page at this URL now says "Page not found."
Below, here's the material that was at http://openmedia.ca/donation-media-democracy as of February 11, 2011. That's the day that I first wrote about Open Media, here at this blog. For the .pdf file of this web-page as of Feb. 11, 2011, click here.
One of the questions that was asked on this web-page of Open Media as it was written as of Feb. 11, was "How did you hear about this project at Tides Canada? The way that this question is worded led me to believe that Open Media is, indeed, a project of Tides Canada. However, the lawyer for Tides Canada says it isn't.
Below, here's the second page of the .pdf file for the web-page that was posted at http://openmedia.ca/donation-media-democracy as of Feb. 11, 2011.
Here's this material as of Feb. 11, 2011 and as of March 11, 2011:
Below, here's another example of how the web-site of Open Media was re-written between Feb. 11, and March 11:
Open Media also changed its web-page titled http://openmedia.ca/drive. Below, here are excerpts from this web-page as of February 11, 2011 and as of March 11, 2011.
In the version from Feb. 11, Open Media says, "You've bee part of the biggest online campaign in Canadian history! And you've moved politics!" Those sentences have been removed from the version that was posted as of March 11, shown below.
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