Big Telecom’s Power Grab | Weekly News Update from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s Lindsey with your update: As big telecom company Bell gets set to take over Astral Media, we’re likely to be seeing even higher prices, tighter contracts, and more…
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The ITU takes a (half-measured) step towards transparency
Last month, we reposted an article that reported a move by the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to take over management of the Internet. This is a worrying move…
Slate.com: The TPP is The Most Important Trade Agreement That We Know Nothing About
What is the TPP hiding? It’s long been referred to as a “trade agreement” between the countries that are negotiating, but in reality it addresses more than twenty chapters of…
Hey TPP, don’t mess with our Internet!
We’re making our message heard loud and clear. Add your voice at StopTheTrap.net or make a contribution to the ongoing campaign by clicking here.
The TPP isn’t just a Trap, it’s a Cat-astrophe
The cat’s got their tongue, but let’s make them talk. Make a contribution to the StopTheTrap.net campaign by clicking here.
The TPP Negotiating Table is Missing a Seat: Ours
Help put an end to the TPP secrecy. Make a contribution to the StopTheTrap.net campaign by clicking here.
Building a Global Platform: Weekly Update from OpenMedia.ca
Hello! Here’s Reilly, replacing Lindsey, with your (slightly lower-tech!) update: read more
Campaign update: From its inception the Internet has been about us
From its inception the Internet has been about us: the users. Yet time and time again old government and industry bureaucracies have tried to restrict our connection to each other…
You’re needed
We got their attention. We hand-delivered your 90,000+ Stop The Trap petition signatures to TPP negotiators. Now they’ve said they might make their secrets public!1 Let’s not give them any…
Michael Geist – Canada Excluded From Next Round of TPP Negotiations
The next round of TPP negotiations will again have a distinct lack of Canadian input. What this means is that decisions that are made during the coming TPP negotiations won’t…
Ars Technica: Censorship has no borders
Why is the open Internet so important worldwide? Researchers from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab have shown that censorship has no borders—if one country blocks content, then that block…
Huffington Post: OpenMedia op-ed on the TPP’s Internet trap
Our very own Reilly Yeo and Steve Anderson write about how the TPP’s Internet trap would create a “world where you could receive a fine, and possibly be dragged before…
Large petition against TPP’s Internet trap hand-delivered to negotiations in San Diego
delivery1.jpg Broad coalition confronts TPP negotiations armed with over 90,000-strong StopTheTrap.net petition July 7, 2012 – Organizations and people belonging to the StopTheTrap.net Coalition delivered 90,000+ signatures from around the…
Infojustice: TPP negotiators are trying to shut you out
Groups from the StopTheTrap.net coalition are on the ground in San Diego as trade reps discuss the restrictive intellectual property aspects of the TPP—the Internet trap. But TPP negotiators aren’t…
It’s time to amplify our voice against the TPP’s Internet Trap
Right in this moment, lobbyists are pushing through the closure of the open Internet. As you read this, they are setting a trap of restrictions that will criminalize daily uses…