The Internet has become so indispensable to modern life that it’s often joked about as the real foundation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, 1 nestled even below food, water, and shelter, nowadays.

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Together with Ekō, the OpenMedia community is calling out Canada’s monopolies.

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When you buy a smartphone or a laptop, that device should be completely yours; you ought to be able to do what you want with it. If you drop your phone off the fifth floor, and the screen breaks, you ...

An alarming number of privacy violations are coming from just one sector of our digital economy. Enabled and empowered by weak privacy laws, these organizations are taking advantage of the Internet by ...

It’s been called the “Most dangerous Canadian Internet bill you’ve never heard of”. But some folk will tell you it’s just a common sense approach to protecting kids — and who could say no to that! So ...

Update: Bill C-10 has been replaced by Bill C-11 (Online Streaming Act), for up-to-date information check out our latest blog "What's Wrong with Bill C-11: An FAQ". “CanCon” is Canadian content — TV ...

It’s about to be blocked on several major online platforms. Canadian Internet users will not be able to share links to Canadian news outlet websites on Instagram or Facebook, or see links to their ...

II. A narrow takedown duty to remove content their users report that appears to be child sexual or physical abuse related content, or nonconsensually shared adult material, within 24 hours; ...

With regulatory reviews of the Rogers-Shaw transaction ongoing, it is worth revisiting one reason this transaction is so controversial, billionaire family drama aside. Wireless internet access is a ...

If you’ve been on social media recently, you may have seen all the buzz around the Internet Archive. Here's what's going down: for two years, Big Media publishers have been embroiled in a lawsuit ...