Internet Insider: Delivering your voices in Washington D.C. and Ottawa

Details: Published on Friday, 24 March 2017 12:00; Written by editor

INTERNET INSIDER
March 24, 2017

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It’s been another exciting week for your OpenMedia team! Our own Katy Anderson took your voices straight to the halls of power in Washington D.C., delivering your call to the FCC not to dismantle essential Net Neutrality consumer protections, alongside our allies at the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press, Demand Progress, Popular Resistance, Free Press, and others!

Katy even found time to speak up against attempts by Congressional Republicans to allow U.S. Internet providers to sell your browsing history to advertisers without your permission.

In Canada, our Executive Director Laura Tribe has been in Ottawa this week, meeting with key government officials on a wide range of key digital rights concerns — including delivering your Let’s Talk TPP report to the International Trade department. It was also federal budget week in Canada — and what a letdown it was! The government failed to announce any new investment in broadband infrastructure, despite last December’s historic CRTC ruling that all Canadians deserve reliable, high-speed Internet access.

In Europe, our campaign against the Link Tax is going from strength to strength - earlier this week, El Pais, Spain’s most prominent newspaper, spoke out strongly against the EU Commission’s proposals in an editorial. And with top MEPs deliberating on the issue right now, there’s never been a better time for you to send them a message.

Last but not least, we have a couple of great volunteer pieces up on our blog this week. Jesse Schoof explores the implications of digital locks on physical objects in his piece about the non-ownership of our digital world, while Adam Peach has a fascinating piece about Police Drones and the War on Data — check them out!

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