If you’re a fan of the Good Wife like me, you’re not only still mourning the death of Will Gardner, you’re also reeling from last week’s season finale cliffhanger (will Diana, Alicia, and Cary finally become one firm!?) With its well-crafted dialogue and character-driven plot, the Good Wife is arguably
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OpenMedia.ca: Use the Internet to save the Internet – and win an incredible pro-Internet prize pack
At OpenMedia, we love sharing and collaborating with our global community when it comes to formulating effective and game changing digital policy. That means using the Internet to save the Internet. It also means reaching out to one another, to converse, to deliberate and of course, to combine our own
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Mythbusters: Internet Censorship edition
Back in the 1980s, there was a huge fear that video would kill the radio star – a sentiment most shockingly expressed by Jack Valenti, former President of the MPAA (Movie Picture American Association) when sounding the alarm about the arrival of the VCR: “I say to you that the
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The fight for Internet freedom must not only go on, but go global
So here’s the deal: the future of the open Internet is on the line. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an international trade deal involving 12 Pacific Rim countries, threatens to make the Internet we know and love more expensive, censored, and policed. The TPP has huge implications for all of us
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The Internet has nothing to hide — and neither does game developer superhero Nick Liow
When I first met Nick, up-and-coming game developer, he struck me as what most people would consider to be the “typical gamer”: someone slight in frame with glasses and a bit on the soft spoken side. Once he opens up, however, there’s an electric energy to him. He’s excited about
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: 3 things you need to know about sharing and collaborating online
With Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks intensifying, it’s becoming clearer and clearer why we simply can’t passively rely on unelected lobbyists and bureaucrats to negotiate a fair deal when it comes to our Internet freedom. That’s why it’s more important than ever that we seize this opportunity to propose an alternative
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: TPP breathes life into SOPA as Obama appoints Holleyman as chief negotiator
Remember the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)? It was a reckless piece of U.S. legislation that aimed to censor the Internet through extreme copyright enforcement mechanisms. Let’s refresh our memory about SOPA’s extreme provisions: Give the U.S. government the power to cripple any website they allege made use of copyrighted
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: How Canada’s new copyright rules could make your Internet more expensive, censored, and policed
You’ve no doubt heard about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) by now: an international agreement involving 12 nations whose economic output make up 40% of the world’s GDP and 26% of the world’s trade activity. In other words, it’s kind of a big deal. While the TPP’s international copyright provisions have
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Thank you for joining our first Internet town hall!
Before interning with OpenMedia.ca, I was an avid follower of their Internet freedom campaigns. For the first time since I could remember, a group was speaking out on behalf of Canadians and turning their pro-Internet interests into real, game-changing policy. It was refreshing. Now, as OpenMedia.ca’s Community Engagement Assistant, I’m
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Give the gift of open culture!
To me, one of the great things about the Internet – outside of Doge and Grumpy Cat – is how it can facilitate online crowdfunding. As you probably know, online crowdfunding is a way for people to directly support creative projects of their choice. One of the more well-known platforms
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