Internet Insider: #FastAfrica and #SaveTheLink
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INTERNET INSIDER
May 6, 2016
This week it was great to see the Internet coming together for fast, affordable, safe, and transparent Internet for Africa, as part in the FAST Africa action week for Internet Rights organized by the global coalition we currently take part of, Web We Want. Wherever you live in the world, be sure to keep up with all the action and spreading the word by checking out #FASTAfrica.
In Europe, however, key decision-makers have renewed their attempts to drive forward the innovation-killing link tax (or “ancillary copyright”) that could harm the Internet forever. The good news is we have one big chance to put a stop to this idea before it gets out of control. The European Commission have opened up a last questionnaire on the issue, making it the final step before they release the draft copyright legislation in just a few months. And we need to make sure the link tax doesn’t show up in that document at all. You can speak out now by signing our statement to tell the Commission not to create laws which make the link tax possible.
Access May 3: Canada’s telecom market: Bell’s way or the highway
May 2: “You bring a generational change”: watch OpenMedia present at the CRTC’s Broadband Hearings
April 29: Working together for an affordable Internet across Africa
Free Expression May 3: The EU Commission and the terrible no good very bad idea
April 30: EU Commission's Attempts to Undermine the Hyperlink are a Solution in Search of Problem
April 29: Leak from EU Commission points to a Link Tax and Internet censorship
Privacy
May 3: Canada’s spies in spat over privacy breach reporting
May 2: Police pleas for surveillance-technique secrecy ‘self-serving and weak’, judge says
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