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
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Cowichan Conversations: With LNG, Asian takeovers of Canadian energy assets still booming
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor Here is another substantial post from the keyboard of Kevin Logan, a seemingly indefatigable researcher, writer and analyst. This piece was originally published in the Common Sense Canadian and is being reproduced here with permission of the writer. Asian investment explodes in BC’s LNG market, rivalling
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What If the World Decides Not to Be Taken Hostage by Washington Again?
In 2008, made-in-America Casino Capitalism took down economies around the world and, in case you haven’t noticed, they haven’t come back and won’t anytime soon. Wall Street did what al Qaeda could never dream of achieving. Now America is once again threatening to scupper the global economy. Today the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is China Ready to Make Its Move? Will Beijing Tear Up the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
Most Canadians, and most Americans for that matter, don’t appreciate the lengths the United States has been going to in order to contain China and slow its ascendancy – politically, economically, militarily and technologically. China’s space programme has been targeted by the United States using its ITAR trade regulation to
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: A Year After SOPA, A Look At The Next 5 Battles For Internet Freedom
by Trevor Timm | Electronic Frontier Foundation, Jan. 18, 2013: One year ago today, Internet users of all ages, races, and political stripes participated in the largest protest in Internet history, flooding Congress with millions of emails and phone calls to demand they drop the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—a dangerous
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Report back: Inside the TPP’s Internet Trap
Thanks to support from Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), I had a chance to attend the latest round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, from December 3rd to the 12th, in Auckland, New Zealand. I agreed to attend and make a presentation to the negotiators.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: What I told those behind the biggest threat to Internet freedom: The Trans-Pacific Partnership
Thanks to all of you who have joined us at OpenMedia in our campaigns, last Friday I had the opportunity to address some of the lead bureaucrats and lobbyists behind the threat to Internet freedom that is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). My goal was to bring the voices of Internet
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Guilty by accusation: Overzealous copyright lawyers target Canadians
The Internet is ablaze with fury at the news that a content company – Voltage Pictures – is requesting the private information of thousands of Canadian Internet users, who it claims violated its copyright. Crackdowns on alleged infringement are sweeping the nation, as ISPs are being pressured to give private
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Michael Geist: Secrecy the standard at Trans-Pacific Partnership talks
Another round of talks has concluded on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secretive trade agreement that could criminalize everyday Internet use, confiscate online data and give more power to corporate lobbyists. With Canada having joined the TPP as a ‘second-tier’ status member, it’s clear that our government has little to gain
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: NZ Herald: Copyright clampdown of the TPP
A secretive trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is again being negotiated this week in closed-door discussions – seeking to introduce invasive copyright legislation to everyday Internet use. Let the lobbyists and bureaucrats behind the TPP know that citizens worldwide rightfully deserve a seat at the table. Learn
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Canada and Egypt: A Study in Contrasts
My wife, well aware of my anguish over the disengagement with democracy of so many Canadians, made a comment this morning that has inspired this post. She observed the sharp contrast that exists with Egypt, where the notion of democracy is still more a dream than a reality, a dream
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Huffington Post: Canada creating secret ‘insider group’ of lobbyists through TPP
The government has mistakenly sent us at OpenMedia a non-disclosure agreement intended for lobbyists involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. This is confirmation that this secretive and extre…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Your Voice at the TPP Negotiations
The secretive and restrictive Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is nearing its 15th round of negotiations, which will be held from December 3-12 in Auckland, New Zealand. This will be the first ro…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: EFF.org: Trans-Pacific Partnership is trading away our digital rights
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement is about to get a bit more crowded, with Canada formally joining as ‘second-tier’ negotiators at next month’s talks. These closed-door meetings will…
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Thanks for asking us anything!
What do you get when you round up an enthusiastic group of digital rights experts, online innovators and advocates of Net Freedom – all with the purpose of taking any and all questions from members of the Internet community? If yesterday’s Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit is to be
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Michael Geist: TPP copyright laws could dismantle Canadian content
While Canada has been formally included as a negotiating party in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, more information from secretive texts and clauses is beginning to surface. We’ve talked about how the TPP will restrict Internet access, criminalize and fine your actions online and collect your private data – but
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: We’re hosting a Reddit AMA – join us!
We’re on Reddit today from 9AM – 7PM EST talking about Internet freedom, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and what comes next for our StopTheTrap.net campaign. Throughout the day, we’ll be joined by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, Professor Michael Geist and various digital rights experts from Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, InternetNZ,
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: What’s the Deal? Demand Transparency for the TPP
Canada has officially joined the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, and has done so as a second-tier partner, meaning that we have had to accept, sight-unseen, the provisions that have already been negotiated. As Ottawa law professor Michael Geist put it in an interview with the Vancouver Sun, “just by entering into
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Over +115,000 signatures on StopTheTrap.net
Thanks to your support, we’ve reached 115,000 signatures on our campaign against the Trans-Pacific Partnership and its invasive Internet provisions. That’s 115,000 citizens worldwide who won’t stand for a restricted Internet, won’t allow the collection of our private data and won’t put up with harsh criminalized fines for everyday users.
Continue readingOpenMedia.ca: Macleans: Trans-Pacific Partnership could choke the free Internet
With Canada formally joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations last week, invasive copyright provisions could cost Canadians in having their personal data compromised, online access restricted and Internet actions criminalized. Join over 115,000 people worldwide in speaking out for Internet freedom at StopTheTrap.net. Article by Jesse Brown for Macleans
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