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OpenMedia.ca: Open The TPP campaign turns heads at negotiations
Over the past week, we’ve been asking you to submit your comments, images and opinions regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Yesterday, our coalition partners met with negotiators and shared your feedback – turning heads and creating discussion based on what YOU had to say. Your messages were provoking and united by
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Council of Canadians: Talks resume on trade agreement that could harm innovation and online privacy
The latest round of negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership are underway this week, with lobbyists and corporate advisers making decisions on ways to regulate and restrict our Internet use. The TPP’s regressive approach to intellectual property is shrouded in secrecy and only made available to 600 or so industry representatives.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: What is the TPP hiding from us?
The negotiating parties behind the Trans-Pacific Partnership are continuing to restrict access and input to the TPP text, effectively disregarding the voices of citizens worldwide in letting themselves be heard. We’ve created an online tool at OpenTheTPP.net to get your messages in front of TPP negotiators. Together, let’s push open
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: We made something for you
Imagine you could speak out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s (TPP) threat to Internet freedom, and have your comments projected on the walls in front of TPP officials. That’s exactly what we at OpenMedia are working overtime to accomplish. Closed-door TPP meetings take place this week in Leesburg, Virginia, where officials
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Momentum shifts in push towards Internet freedom: StopTheTrap.net update
Get ready to raise some ruckus: the next round of TPP negotiations is only a week away. From Thursday, September 6th to Saturday the 15th, in Leesburg, Virginia, U.S.A, negotiators will reconvene behind closed doors and make decisions about the future of Internet freedom worldwide. We at OpenMedia and the
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: RWW: Why you should you be terrified of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-Pacific Partnership has long been shrouded in secrecy. Although a few key leaks have given insight to strict copyright laws, collection of private data and criminalized Internet use – we still haven’t been granted access to the text or negotiating process. Even the upcoming ‘Stakeholder Presentations’ are beginning to
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Canadians launch platform to defend Internet freedom worldwide
OMI_256x256.png Mobile-adaptive site launched as threats to open Internet access go global August 23, 2012 – In response to the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) process and other threats to Internet freedom, Canadian non-profit Internet freedom organization, OpenMedia, is launching a platform to amplify the voices of the global pro-Internet community.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Scaling up together to meet the threats to the open Internet
From the beginning the Internet has always been about us; those who use the Internet to connect with one another, to create, to express ourselves, and to make our lives just a little bit easier. We’ve been successful in standing up to lobbyists who act to restrict Internet freedom in
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The Online Hub: Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: EFF: What is TPP?
To speak out on the TPP and Stop the Internet Trap visit: http://stopthetrap.net. Image below via our coalition partners at EFF.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: International Internet restrictions: Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: EFF: The TPP’s Temporary Copies Provision
Last week we shared how the latest leak of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) text had shown differing opinions regarding intellectual property rights. Now, we’re looking back to an earlier leak that addresses this particular chapter and how it could affect our Internet access. The intellectual property chapter describes how under the
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Latest TPP leak suggests a wave of dissent amongst negotiating parties
Citizens around the world clearly don’t like what the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)—a worrying multinational trade agreement—would do to the Internet and the rules that surround its governance. This distrust and concern has been vocalized clearly by over 100,000 pro-Internet community members who have signed the StopTheTrap.net petition. Beyond the TPP’s
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Where we are today
Lobbyists have been seeking greater control over the Internet on multiple fronts – but citizens have been coming together in huge numbers (and across borders) to use the Internet to save the Internet. This is revolutionizing politics around the world. As we head into fall, we’re energized to see that
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Hitting Milestones: Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
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Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Ars Technica: Privacy protections must keep pace to protect against digital dragnets
If we don’t stand together now, we’re looking at a future where corporations and governments could access the private information of any citizen at any time. We don’t want this for Canada. But there are two strong threats to our Internet freedom on the horizon: the secretive and extreme TPP
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: U.S. spying bill CISPA defeated on the Senate floor
After a long battle, the global pro-Internet community saw a victory today as U.S. online spying bill CISPA was defeated on the Senate floor. Like Canada’s online spying bill C-30, CISPA would give the U.S. government access to residents’ personal data with few restrictions or privacy safeguards. Though in April,
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: An incredible milestone in the push against the TPP’s Internet trap
Thanks to all of you who have added your name to the petition at http://StopTheTrap.net/, and those who have taken the crucial step of spreading the word, the global pro-Internet movement hit a milestone today: 100,000-strong against the TPP’s Internet trap. The TPP is secretive, extreme, and it could criminalize
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