Your news links for today: If You’re Not Paranoid, You’re Crazy – The Atlantic Defendants Should Have the Right to Inspect the Software Code Used to Convict Them – Slate Sanders would ‘absolutely’ end NSA spying – The Hill Why the TPP Creates a Backdoor Copyright Takedown System in Canada
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OpenMedia.ca: Toronto Star: Cellphone bill too high? Here’s what the political parties would do about it
Canadians pay some of the highest prices in the world for Internet and cell phone service – and if you live in rural or northern Canada, you may not even have reliable service at all. So which candidate do you think will lower your cellphone bill? Learn more below and
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Geist: Why the TPP Creates a Backdoor Copyright Takedown System in Canada
Here’s why the TPP represents a significant change to copyright and the Internet in Canada. Learn more below and speak out while there’s still time at StoptheSecrecy.net Article by Michael Geist The 2012 Canadian copyright reform law featured several “made in Canada” provisions that the Conservative government touted as striking
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Guest Blog: How Canadian students are speaking out against C-51
A student movement is demanding an end to Canada’s system of secret and pervasive mass surveillance. Aaron Gluck Thaler, the director of the Student Coalition for Privacy, explains who benefits from Bill C-51 and why it needs to be repealed. A version of this piece was originally published by Ricochet.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Boing Boing: making sense of the Trans Pacific Partnership, a Canadian election perspective
The TPP prioritizes the interests of Old Media conglomerates ahead of that of Internet users. If you care about the Internet, Canadian politics, privacy, copyright, transparency and the upcoming election, you should read this and speak out at StoptheSecrecy.net Article by Cory Doctorow for Boing Boing The current Canadaland podcast
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: WikiLeaks release of TPP Intellectual Property chapter confirms agreement threatens Canada’s Internet freedom
tpp-leak.jpg Confirmed: retroactive 20 year copyright term extensions, new rules that would induce ISPs to block websites, and criminal penalties for the circumvention of digital locks October 9, 2015 – This morning, WikiLeaks released the final version of the TPP’s Intellectual Property Chapter, just days after Trade Minister Ed Fast’s
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The TPP Agreement Is Not A Free Trade Agreement, It’s A Protectionist Anti-Free Trade Agreement
The TPP isn’t about free trade, it’s about protectionism on a global scale. But protections for who? Written by and for Techdirt We’ve pointed out a few times in the past that while everyone refers to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement as a “free trade” agreement, the reality
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Dems vow to keep net neutrality riders out of funding bill
It looks like our pressure is working! A week ago, Big Telecom tried (and failed) to destroy the open web by sneaking new slow lane powers into a bill that has nothing to do with the Internet – thanks in part to pressure the OpenMedia community. And now Democrats in the U.S.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Four political parties. One digital future.
This morning OpenMedia released our crowdsourced 2015 Election Report Card, grading each of the national parties on how their plans measure up to our action plan for the Internet. With the election just around the corner, we wanted to make sure that you have all of the information that you
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Revealed: Which party gets the worst grade for digital policies on affordable access, online privacy, and free expression?
report_img2.png As digital rights issues including the TPP and Bill C-51 continue to play major election role, OpenMedia publishes crowdsourced report card assessing the leading parties on policy priorities shaped by over 250,000 Canadians October 8, 2015 – Days after the announcement of a major Trans-Pacific Partnership deal, and with
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Trans-Pacific Partnership may perpetuate errors Robert Reich’s new book warns against
Canadians deserve a voice in this. And yet their participation is being so blatantly denied. Wanna speak up? Go to https://stopthesecrecy.net/ to demand your voice be heard! Written by Don Pittis for CBC News According to a new book called Saving Capitalism, what’s wrong with the American economic system has a lot to do
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Rogers, Bell and Telus hike Internet speeds, prices with ‘gigabit’ service
Unbelievable. Big Telecom is charging $150 a month for ultra high speed fibre Internet. Now wonder less than 5% of Canadian households have fibre connections, compared to nearly 70% in Japan. When fibre is affordable there’s no doubt that we’ll leap to the new technology the same way they did
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia’s Meghan Sali: "What we’re talking about here is global Internet censorship."
The TPP is bad news for 800 million internet users. That means you and everyone you know with a computer. We have to stop this. Check out the article below, and speak out at https://StopTheSecrecy.net Article by Deirdre Fulton for CommonDreams read more
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Critics raise data privacy concerns in Trans-Pacific Partnership deal
“Canadians have no idea what they’re signing away” We have a right to know. Speak out at StopTheSecrecy.net/Canada Written by Kate Porter for CBC News Canadians need to see the full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal in order to know what they might be giving up in terms of
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Is the Canadian Government Misleading the Public on the TPP Copyright Provisions?
Why we need to see the full text of the TPP and not just the edited summaries that various governments deem us worthy to have. Written by Michael Geist for his website, michaelgeist.ca The initial Canadian press coverage on the conclusion of the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations has unsurprisingly focused on the dairy sector,
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: How big is Big Telecom? Just how concentrated is the Canadian media landscape?
So, just how big is Big Telecom? Our friends at the Canadian Media Concentration Research Project, led by Carleton University Professor (and OpenMedia friend) Dwayne Winseck, have sought to answer exactly that question. In a new blog post they ask: Ever wonder who the main companies are that make up and shape the
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Everything you need to vote in the 2015 federal election
It’s finally here! After the longest campaign in Canadian history, it’s time to cast your vote. For some of you, this may be routine. But for others, this may be your first time voting! In either case, we’ve put together a list of resources from Elections Canada to make sure
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: What We Know About the Secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership that Was Just Signed
Expanded spying capacity, increased cost of life-saving prescription drugs in the developing world, and the blurring of the lines between public and private corporations. We are ready to hear the good news… Article by Jordan Pearson for VICE The Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive international trade deal between 12 countries including Canada, Japan, and
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Your news links for today: Liberal Leader Would Change When Canada’s NSA Could Spy – VICE News CSE-related items in the Liberal platform – Lux Ex Umbra Is the Canadian Government Misleading the Public on the TPP Copyright Provisions? – Michael Geist Trade Officials Announce Conclusion of TPP—Now the Real
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: TPP signed: the ‘biggest global threat to the internet’ agreed, as campaigners warn that secret pact could bring huge new restri
The “biggest global threat to the internet” is a big statement to make. Unfortunately for all of us, it also happens to be based in fact. Article by Andrew Griffin for the Independent An agreement that some campaigners have called the “biggest global threat to the internet” has just been
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