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Netflix to freeze out customer internet privacy tools

Netflix to freeze out customer internet privacy tools

Feb 1, 2016

INDEPENDENT MEDIA by Meghan Sali • When David Fullagar, Netflix vice president of Content Delivery Architecture, announced last week the company would be cracking down on users who employ privacy tools while watching Netflix, you could practically hear the groans reverberate across the globe. The bombshell was dropped only a week after Netflix launched service...

The TPP and Internet censorship

The TPP and Internet censorship

Nov 1, 2015

Trudeau’s first big test as Prime Minister INDEPENDENT MEDIA by Meghan Sali   • Do you squeeze oranges expecting apple juice? Of course not. So Canadians shouldn’t be surprised when an undemocratic process like the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations yields an undemocratic result. On October 5, just two weeks before the recent...

Internet future on the line

Internet future on the line

Jun 1, 2015

INDEPENDENT MEDIA by Meghan Sali The Internet has revolutionized the way we interact with the world around us. It enables us to transcend our physical restrictions and travel the world and we can access and ingest research, art, culture and knowledge that, in the past, would have been stored in libraries and other physical archives, inaccessible to many. Due to...

Copyright trolls could be on their way

Copyright trolls could be on their way

Apr 1, 2015

INDEPENDENT MEDIA by Meghan Sali and Steve Anderson   • Canada’s system of copyright enforcement is internationally recognized as a next-generation approach – striking a balance between the rights of artists and creators and those of Internet users. Our system is designed to protect people from false claims of infringement and needless...