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By Cory Doctorow All this month, the European Union’s “trilogue” is meeting behind closed doors to hammer out the final wording of the new Copyright…
By Cory Doctorow All this month, the European Union’s “trilogue” is meeting behind closed doors to hammer out the final wording of the new Copyright…
By Michael Snyder In the 9th largest economy in the world, the financial markets are crashing, and in the 21st largest economy in the world…
By Aaron Kesel GCHQ surveillance revealed by Snowden breached privacy rights, according to Strasbourg judges. GCHQ’s methods for bulk interception of various online communications violated privacy…
By Joseph Jankowski The European Parliament has passed a controversial copyright directive that contains provisions which force tech giants to install content filters and sets…
By Cory Doctorow In exactly one week, the European Parliament will hold a crucial debate and vote on a proposal so terrible, it can only…
By Joseph Jankowski The European Union is in the final stages of crafting legislation that will force big tech and Internet companies to censor “extremist”…
By Mac Slavo A European Union committee has just approved rules that could “destroy the internet as we know it.” The two new and controversial…
By Julian Rose In 2016, under Prime Minister David Cameron, UK citizens were offered a referendum in order to decide whether or not the UK…
By Claire Bernish After nervous customers panicked and drained their accounts, ultimately causing the collapse of Spanish bank, Banco Popular, equally jittery European Union officials…
By Everett Numbers Northern Ireland is the closest it’s been to leaving the United Kingdom in two decades after recent elections only increased animosity between…
By Melissa Dykes Did you know that earlier this spring, many U.S. tech megacompanies including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Microsoft all signed a “code of…
By James Corbett The scene is becoming familiar, even if the actors change from stage to stage: A political establishment is overturned by a wave…
By Tom Luongo Italy went to the polls and gave its Prime Minister and, by extension, the European Union a big thumbs down on Sunday….
By Michael Snyder Italian voters have embraced the global trend of rejecting the established world order, but the “no” vote on Sunday has plunged global…