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SaveOurNet.ca | Protecting your Internet's level playing field
When it comes to surfing the web, the Internet user, not big telecom, should be in the driver's seat. But a handful of companies want a discriminatory or "gatekeeper" network so they can control Canadians' access to the Internet. They have already been caught throttling or slowing Internet traffic to businesses and consumers, blocking access to websites that criticized them and crippling consumer devices and applications.
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The FFII is a global network of associations dedicated to information about free and competitive software markets, genuine open standards and patent systems with lesser barriers to competition. The FFII contributions enabled the rejection of the EU software patent directive in July 2005, working closely with the European Parliament and many partners from industry and civil society. CNET awarded the FFII the Outstanding contribution to software development prize for this work.
BLOG Police in the UK have argued that those who swear at them during street encounters are likely to cause them alarm and distress, thereby allowing them to use their powers of arrest. A recent ruling rejected the practice.
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The brutal rape and murder of Oksana Makar, apparently committed by well-connected children, has forced Ukrainians to reflect on power, elite privilege and impunity, writes Mykola RiabchukOpen Gov