Author: David Christopher

This week has been incredible – and we’re not done yet! Over 5 million are now speaking up against Internet slow lanes. Thanks to everyone who’s pitched in – it’s helped us secure hard-hitting media coverage like this. If you’ve yet to do so, remember to speak out before Monday’s

Life as OpenMedia’s communications manager is rarely dull – but Monday was a particularly exciting day for me. Not only were we launching a historic global campaign to save net neutrality, it was also the morning of my presentation to key B.C. MLAs reviewing British Columbia’s provincial privacy legislation, the

Here at OpenMedia so much of what we do depends on you, our community. Whether it’s speaking up in “>crowdsourcing the future of online free expression, or standing up against

Written with input from OpenMedia.ca’s Glyn Lewis It appears that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is starting to listen to Canadians. Over the last year, we’ve seen the CRTC publish customer-friendly new rules for wireless, set up a special task force to investigate extortionate roaming fees, and start

Canadians have been speaking out in huge numbers about the government’s mass surveillance of law-abiding citizens. For some time now, debate has focused on how many of our telecom companies appear to be cooperating with warrantless surveillance requests from government agencies. Just weeks ago it was revealed that there were

One year ago today, the way we think about the Internet changed forever. Edward Snowden blew the whistle on one of the worst human rights abuses in history: governments have been secretly monitoring our phone calls, webcams, texts, chats, real-time location, and reading habits — literally everything we do online

Right now, free expression online is under immense threat. Powerful interests are intensifying their efforts to ram through deeply restrictive new rules that could criminalize everyday sharing and collaboration online. Lobbyists for giant media conglomerates are using Trans-Pacific Partnership talks to smuggle through their extreme agenda in near-total secrecy. Why?

It looks like the rumble against the government’s Online Spying Bill C-13 is turning into a roar. Leading Conservative elder statesman Stockwell Day has joined the growing chorus of Canadians speaking out about how Bill C-13 would expose law-abiding Canadians to warrantless government spying. If passed, the controversial bill would