Thank you to everyone for sending in your concerns, questions, and feedback about the ultra-secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations that will break our digital future. Our own Steve Anderson will be reporting back shortly, but until then, we thought we’d share this picture of him prepared with what you had
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OpenMedia.ca: Canada’s spy watchdogs are lobbyists and that’s a problem
Many are expressing outrage now that the public has become aware that Chuck Strahl is acting as a lobbyist for Enbridge, the company hoping to build a controversial oil pipeline across B.C. The problem is that Strahl is also chairman of the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), which is basically
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Anyone who cares about the Internet should be concerned about the TPP
Our own Christopher Malmo tells you why the ultra-secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could break our digital future – and why you shouldn’t believe U.S. statements about the so-called benefits of this agreement being negotiated behind closed doors. Article by Christopher Malmo for Vice Canada: Back in October 2013, Wikileaks released
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Australians to Canadians: Beware TPP economic fallout
Over 125,000 people – including tens of thousands of Canadians – have now spoken out about the damaging Internet censorship proposals in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). We know from leaked drafts all about how the TPP would make your Internet more expensive, censored, and policed. Now, our friends in Australia
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: Huffington Post: Could Canada be wavering on the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
Could Canada be wavering in its strong stand against U.S. domination in the Trans-Pacific Partnership? We’ll be keeping up the pressure in 2014 to fight hard for our digital future. Learn more & speak out against the TPP at https://OpenMedia.org/Censorship. Want to send your local paper a letter voicing your
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: INFOGRAPHIC: Ways the TPP’s extreme Internet Censorship plan will affect you
Thanks to you, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations have ended in Singapore without agreement! We’ve got to keep up the pressure, as talks continue in January. We’ve created this handy infographic to outline how the TPP’s extreme Internet censorship plan will affect you Please help us spread the word by sharing
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Fresh leaks show U.S. bullying in the TPP is intensifying
A few days ago, we told you about what could be the last round of ultra-secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ministerial meetings being held in Singapore. Wikileaks has just released a new set of documents which reveal just how isolated and headstrong the U.S. is in its efforts to break our
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: RELEASED: New TPP leaks show just how much the U.S. wants to dominate Internet Censorship negotiations
Wikileaks has released a new set of texts from the ultra-secretive Trans-Pacific Parternship (TPP) negotiations. The text reveals that there is strong disagreement over 119 outstanding issues, with the U.S. refusing to compromise its efforts at dominating the discussions – and outcomes – of the agreement. The new leaks come
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: This could be the last time TPP negotiators meet to decide our digital future
Today is the first day of what may be the last round of ultra-secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ministerial meetings in Singapore. Although the meetings were initially to be held from December 7-9, they will now be extended for an extra day at the request of – you guessed it –
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Check out all the citizen letters about TPP Internet censorship publish by local papers in Canada
Secrecy. If one word could sum up the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), that would be it. The U.S. lobbyists and bureaucrats behind the TPP know their Internet Censorship proposals are so extreme that they’d never survive the light of day. That’s why they’ve been holding round after round of talks in
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: TPP lobbyists are meeting – let’s keep saying NO to Internet Censorship!
As industry lobbyists meet to push through the secretive and extreme Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in less than 24 hours, let’s send them a strong message. Nearly 125,000 people have said NO to Internet censorship – let’s keep that going to send a strong message once and for all! Get started
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Australians warn Canadians about 88 million dollar economic fallout from caving into U.S. pressure on digital policy
OpenMedia_CA_248x208.png Trade Ministers set to gather for crucial Singapore TPP talks with U.S. lobbyists aiming to strong-arm Canada into adopting Internet censorship rules that damaged the Australian economy December 6, 2013 – Australian experts are warning Canada about the damaging economic fallout of adopting U.S.-driven Internet censorship rules under the
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: The movement for an open Internet starts with you. Join our town hall, and together, let’s make history.
It’s hard to imagine a world without the Internet. It’s an essential part of how we thrive as a society, and so many of our daily activities now happen online. From the moment we wake up to when we go to bed, we’re on the Internet sharing with friends, creating
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia’s townhall is fast approaching – we hope to see you there!
OpenMedia’s Internet Townhall is fast-approaching – and we can’t wait to hangout with our community on November 28th at 5:30pm PST/8:30pm EST to discuss our digital future. Full details of the event
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Broad coalition to TPP governments: Pull provisions that restrict access to knowledge and open innovation
Censorship_FBShare_131115.png Organizations spanning nearly every TPP nation calls for a new approach that respects broad interests not just that of old US media conglomerates November 21, 2013: Today the Fair Deal Coalition has called on Governments involved in the TPP negotiations to reject copyright proposals that would limit the open
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Join us for a Reddit AMA about the TPP at 11am PT / 2pm ET
Today is the first day of a crucial round of secretive meetings over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Salt Lake City, Utah. For years, OpenMedia has been warning about the TPP and its extreme Internet Censorship plan and calling for greater transparency and accountability around this monumental agreement. Finally, Wikileaks
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Internet governance expert says U.S. trying to strong-arm Canada into economically-damaging Internet censorship rules in international agreement
Censorship_FBShare_131115.png Leading expert Carolina Rossini tells Vancouver audience that carefully crafted Canadian copyright laws could be overturned by extreme U.S.-driven proposals in Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement November 19, 2013 – Carolina Rossini, a renowned U.S.-based expert on international Internet governance, told an audience in Vancouver last night that the U.S. government
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: rabble: The fight against the TPP is growing
What is Canada trading away when it comes to huge, extreme deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? Over 120,000 people have said NO to the #TPP’s extreme Internet Censorship plan. Have you? Learn more at https://OpenMedia.org/Censorship Article by Stuart Trew for Rabble.ca: A TPP cluster bomb dropped in Obama’s lap
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