Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, July 6, 2015
Your news links for today: Fleet of Government Aircraft Flying Secret Missions over U.S. Cities – Medium How the Founding Fathers Fought an 18th Century Version of the President’s Illegal…
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Techdirt: MEP Cavada doesn’t want you to share your photos for free
The so called freedom of panorama was included in MEP Julia Reda’s copyright report, but a troubling amendment voted it out. Speak out now to push back against those powerful…
Tell the CRTC in Your Own Words Why We Need Faster, Cheaper Internet
Bad news: Big Telecom giants are throwing every lawyer and lobbyist they have at a rapidly-approaching government hearing so they can block you from faster, cheaper Internet services. If they…
Rogers is officially approved to take control of Mobilicity
This will mean fewer choices for Canadian cell phone subscribers when wireless prices are already increasing at 3 times the rate of inflation. Speak out now at http://openmedia.ca/gatekeepers Article by…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Friday, July 3, 2015
Your news links for today: WikiLeaks drops new set of secret TISA docs: Yep, no one agrees – Ars Technica Tech Giants Oppose Broad Anti-Piracy Injunctions – TorrentFreak Chicago to…
Canada is going backwards on telecom prices
This article was originally published at Rabble.ca If you’re a Canadian and you own a cell phone, you probably don’t need an official report to tell you that you’re paying…
Washington Post: Even U.S. Bourbon makers call for more ISP choice
Canadians deserve faster, cheaper Internet choices independent of Big Telecom. Even U.S. Bourbon makers at Jim Beam have figured this out, and are calling on THEIR leaders in the U.S.…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Thursday, July 2, 2015
Your news links for today: Access Copyright’s Post-Secondary Tariff – The Glacier is Starting to Melt at the Copyright Board – EXCESS COPYRIGHT Industry Canada Transparency Report Guidelines Intensely Problematic…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Your news links for today: This can be said succinctly: Clips of people being killed shouldn’t be used as campaign fodder – National Post Dear Reddit, this is how the…
Let’s work to stop the crackdown on domain privacy
Have you ever wondered just how many domain names there are out there? Turns out, there are a lot! According to Verisign’s Domain Industry Brief, there were a whopping 288…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, June 29, 2015
Your news links for today: Latest Conservative ad could violate government’s own anti-terror law – CTV News Video: Conservative campaign spokesman Kory Teneycke defends use of ISIS video in recent…
CBC News: Are wireless prices set to rise further, following Rogers’ gobbling-up of Mobilicity?
Canadians are worried they’ll be stuck with ridiculously-priced cell phone plans, following Rogers’ acquisition of indie provider Mobilicity earlier this week. Don’t forget to speak out and tell James Moore…
TechDirt: The Copyright term extension is now law
The internet we love is based on creators being able to freely, cheaply, and easily share their work. But the government’s decision to extend the term of copyright for sound…