“Extreme digital vetting” could be about to get a lot worse in the U.S. The Trump administration has proposed a new rule that would force every single person who needs a visa to enter the U.S. for ...
We need to talk about Elon Musk and the rise of the tech oligarchs. For over 15 years, money and power have been bleeding from citizens and elected governments, to the founders of a small number of ...
Is Elon Musk a unique problem? Yes. And also– no. Yes, his direct involvement in gutting large sections of America’s government without clear authority to do so is unprecedented, and deeply concerning ...
The long-awaited report from the Broadcast and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel is finally out! This panel was established in June of 2018 to propose updates to Canada’s media and ...
The European Commission today released its preliminary analysis on its Public consultation on the regulatory environment for platforms, online intermediaries, data and cloud computing and the ...
Your OpenMedia team has just confirmed the location of a new ultra-secretive meeting to finalize the Trans Pacific Partnership’s (TPP) Internet censorship plan. It’s taking place in just a few days in ...
All over the world, media publishing giants are lobbying to restrict linking on the Internet. That’s why we launched our ‘Save the Link’ campaign. We made it explicit from the start that we knew what ...
The government has promised to push through an invasive, anti-Internet set of "Lawful Access" electronic surveillance laws within the first 100 days of Parliament. If passed, these laws will turn ...
The answer is a watchdog, mostly muzzled and defanged, whose reports to Parliament are first censored by the intelligence agency he is watching, then cleared by the minister politically responsible ...
Independent Canadian providers are struggling due to years of regulatory protection of the Big Three cell phone providers and delayed promises from policy-makers to provide access to the ...
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