Google Take Action

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https://www.google.com/takeaction/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=freeandopenoa

A free and open world depends on a free and open web.

The Internet has connected more than two billion people around the world.
Some governments want to use a closed-door meeting in December to increase censorship and regulate the Internet. Join together to keep the Internet free and open.

What’s at stake

Only governments have a voice at the ITU. This includes governments that do not support a free and open Internet. Engineers, companies, and people that build and use the web have no vote.

Pledge your support for the free and open Internet:

“A free and open world depends on a free and open Internet. Governments alone, working behind closed doors, should not direct its future. The billions of people around the globe who use the Internet should have a voice.”

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[Twinz]

I vote for a FREE & OPEN internet :bravo:raise:

On a recent trip to Italy, I was shocked to learn about the strict internet laws that have been implemented in Italy by their government. This law was implemented as part of their anti-terrorism campaign. So technically, internet use can be legally monitored (live) by the authorities in the name of national security. For example, a simple thing: You have to log-in each time when you want to use the internet. Their is no such thing as "always on". This law is also applicable to casual users using "hotspots" and free public wifi areas.

At least one of the cool things in Europe are the "free" municipal hotspot areas BUT you must have a local (italian) sim card to access these free areas. You will also hate the fact that internet reception is really, really BAD eveywhere in Italy...even the "fastest" internet access will remind you of the "dial-up" days.

I am sure in SA, more stringent internet access are going to be applied, using the "secrecy law".:bangdesk:

 

[Nic_s]

Governments haven't liked the fact that the crap they do can spread so quickly and so widely as a result of the internet for a long time now. This is like letting them decide who the ocean belongs to.

The internet has changed the world in ways we can't even think of and I'm sorry, but governments and the entertainment industry just don't want to evolve with it. They want to control it like they do everything else. What they fail to realize is that there's millions of people who will fight back to keep the internet open and free. It's a lot like the gaming industry spending millions on anti piracy methods only for their games to be cracked in less than a day after it's release. :shakehead:

 

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