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Media News Posts: The Return of Lawful Access

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:35:02 -0800

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Media News Posts: Stop The Cell Phone Squeeze gains support from indie provider Mobilicity

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:09:54 -0800

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Media News Posts: Rogers to Stop Throttling the Internet

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:35:20 -0800

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Big Telecom company responds after being caught restricting access to online se

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press release: Rogers to Stop Throttling the Internet

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:35:20 -0800

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Big Telecom company responds after being caught restricting access to online se
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Michael Geist: Poland Suspends ACTA Ratification

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:59:59 -0800
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has read more

Michael Geist: Beyond SOPA: ACTA, WIPO, and the Global Copyfight

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:19:10 -0800
Last week, I delivered a keynote address on copyright issues at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. The talk focused on the activism around SOPA and assessed the global strategies employed by the U.S. and copyright lobby groups of shifting away from WIPO toward closed negotiations such as the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
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Michael Geist: "Why I Signed ACTA"

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:16:12 -0800
Slovenia's Ambassador to Japan offers a full explanation for why she signed ACTA:

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Michael Geist: The Academic Spring

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:14:47 -0800
The Economist reports on the growing boycott of Elsevier by thousands of academics over open access issues.

WordsByNowak: Samsung Note a large, intriguing curiosity

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:01:11 -0800
Remember when the iPad first came out and Apple touted it as the device that would fill the void between smartphone and laptop? The jokes came along pretty quickly about how long it would be till someone tried to squeeze something more into the space between smartphones and tablets. Well, laugh no more because Samsung [...]

Media News Posts: Is everything alright with Canada’s Internet? Rogers thinks so.

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:44:45 -0800

Canadians have access to fast, widely available, and relatively inexpensive Internet service...at least according to Ro
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