petersuber4d ago

The #EFF (@eff) is right about the fear of system overloads caused by surging bot traffic:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/free-and-open-web-under-attack-ietf

"However reasonable these fears may be, the answer is not to change the #IETF #standards from neutral protocols that encourage openness to restrictive requirements designed to monetize internet access."

#AI #Internet #InternetEngineeringTaskForce #OpenInternet

The Free and Open Web Is Under Attack at the IETF

The ability to access publicly available information using automated tools is a central value and benefit of a free and open internet. Automated access—often called crawling or scraping—powers important, useful tools for locating, preserving, and analyzing online information. For example, crawling...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
NGI Commons4d ago

📢 Join the NGI Commons webinar: Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Package: Key Takeaways and Next Steps

🎫 Register here: https://commons.ngi.eu/event/europes-tech-sovereignty-package/

🎤 Zuzanna Warso will assess the European Commission’s Tech Sovereignty Package from the perspective of NGI Commons.

🫵 Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about the future of Europe’s digital strategy and the role of the NGI community in shaping it.

#NGICommons #DigitalSovereignty #TechSovereignty #OpenInternet #DigitalPolicy #Europe #NGI #Innovation

information labs4d ago
🔥 #DigitalNetworksAct feedback period closed: the #OpenInternet is still in the danger zone!
Big telcos continue to push for mandatory dispute-resolution, while all other stakeholders hold the line.
Next hop: IMCO’s 30 June Amendment deadline
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14709-Digital-Networks-Act/feedback_en?p_id=22348
CCIA Europe6d ago

Explainer: How can Europe fight #piracy without breaking the #OpenInternet? 🌍🏴‍☠️

Blunt #blocking may briefly interrupt illegal streams, but it also disrupts legitimate services and burdens neutral intermediaries such as #CDNs and #VPNs. ⚠️

➡️ https://ccianet.org/library/explainer-fighting-piracy-without-breaking-the-internet-ccia-europe/

Show threadOpen Rights Group6d ago

“Open Rights Group encourages people around the world who want a human-rights based approach to tackling harm to join this movement."

We can't stand by as governments pursue online safety in ways that gut our rights to privacy and free expression.

🗣️ ORG's @JamesBaker.

#StopKillingTheInternet #StopKillingInternet #socialmediaban #openinternet #privacy #freeexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol

Show threadOpen Rights Group6d ago

Governments are moving toward bans, scanning, curfews and restrictions that could change the internet for everyone.

#StopKillingTheInternet supports rights-respecting approaches to child protection, privacy, democratic accountability and platform responsibility.

The movement launches on 27 June ⬇️

#StopKillingTheInternet #StopKillingInternet #socialmediaban #openinternet #privacy #freeexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol

Open Rights Group6d ago

NEW: A global movement to defend the open internet 🌐

Stop Killing the Internet brings creators, communities and civil society together to say: the Internet must remain open, private and free.

ORG is joining the movement as the UK moves to ban social media and scan devices.

Find out more ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/stop-killing-the-internet-new-global-movement-launches/

#StopKillingTheInternet #StopKillingInternet #socialmediaban #openinternet #privacy #freeexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol

Stop Killing the Internet: New global movement launches

Stop Killing Games has teamed up with global rights respecting organisations, including Open Rights Group, to form Stop Killing the Internet, a global movement defending the open Internet.

Open Rights Group
information labsJun 15
Anti-piracy enforcement is moving from websites to internet infrastructure.
The result? Google Drive blocked, GitHub disrupted, and VPNs targeted. The problem isn't weak enforcement. It's weak safeguards.
https://informationlabs.org/brussels-revisits-copyright-part-1-why-the-rush-to-block-live-sports-piracy-threatens-fundamental-rights/
#DigitalRights #OpenInternet
Brussels Revisits Copyright –  Part 1: Why the Rush to Block Live Sports Piracy Threatens Fundamental Rights

This is the first installment in a three-part series analyzing the European Commission’s current call for evidence on EU copyright rules. This post focuses on live content piracy; subsequent pieces…

information labs
information labsJun 9
🔥 #DigitalNetworksAct draws broad pushback: almost 40 orgs call on policymakers to deliver a clear, evidence-based telecoms framework that upholds #NetNeutrality!
⇒ Drop the ‘ecosystem cooperation’ (Art. 191-193)
⇒ Keep the #OpenInternet Regulation
🔗 https://www.beuc.eu/letters/joint-statement-open-internet-and-ip-interconnection-digital-networks-act
Joint Statement on the Open Internet and IP Interconnection in the Digital Networks Act

Following the publication of the European Commission’s proposal for a Digital Networks Act (DNA), the under-signed organizations and civil society groups would like to express their concerns regarding the effects of this proposal on net neutrality. We regret that the concerns raised by a broad coalition of stakeholders during the preparatory phase of this initiative now seem to have materialized in the legislative proposal, as the DNA seeks to review the Open Internet Regulation, incompletely integrating EU net neutrality rules into the DNA, whilst introducing new, sweeping changes adversely affecting the IP interconnection ecosystem

BEUC
Aubreader MastoJun 7

Google właśnie zlikwidował klasyczną wyszukiwarkę. 2,5 miliarda użytkowników. Polskie media zostają same z pytaniem o przyszłość ruchu - Res Futura

https://resfutura.pl/google-wlasnie-zlikwidowal-klasyczna-wyszukiwarke-25-miliarda-uzytkownikow-polskie-media-zostaja-same-z-pytaniem-o-przyszlosc-ruchu/

> W tłumaczeniu na język użytkownika końcowego, Google przestaje wymagać, by sprowadzać swoje pytania do kilku słów kluczowych. Można pisać tak, jak się myśli. System ma to zrozumieć.

#Google #OpenInternet

Google właśnie zlikwidował klasyczną wyszukiwarkę. 2,5 miliarda użytkowników. Polskie media zostają same z pytaniem o przyszłość ruchu - Res Futura

W tłumaczeniu na język użytkownika końcowego, Google przestaje wymagać, by sprowadzać swoje pytania do kilku słów kluczowych. Można pisać tak, jak się myśli. System ma to zrozumieć.

Res Futura - Europejski Kolektyw Analityczny