Your Daily Digital Digest for Wednesday, October 14, 2015
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…
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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…
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…
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,…
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 –…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…