The Cyberunions Podcast – Episode 46: gIMMI net freedomz

We speak to Smári McCarthy of the International Modern Media Institute

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1:30 May Day updates

• Good day in Mexico City
• Good article about the new and old left coming together in the US
• Interesting times across Europe
• Elections in the UK (local), France and Greece

6:00 Tech update

• Apple finally credits Open Street Maps
• Duckduckgo searches Open Street Maps if you search !osm

8:00 Interview with Smári McCarthy

• International Modern Media Institute builds media freedom best practice
• Makes Iceland the best country in the world to host information
• Time to go on the offensive to assert net freedom
• In the US, free speech is easy to suppress at local level
• Free speech laws are 200 years out of date and not fit for the information age
• Never waste a good crisis – it’s an opportunity for change
• Birgitta Jonsdottir helped promote media freedom in the Alþingi
• The financial crisis means Iceland can no longer rely on is finance sector
• Data services become a new economic sector, which is diversified and encourages entrepeneurship
• ACTA is a threat to a large portion of human endeavour and must be stopped
• Lobbyists have succeeded in entrenching intellectual monopoly protections into the Kenyan constitution – allows them to leverage East Africa
• How do unions fit into this? Where is the digital labour movement?
• the labour movement is paralysed by hierarchy – the internet challenges this and can unlock union power
• The industrial revolution was a tragic mistake
• How do you protect whistleblowers?
• You can get hosting in Iceland through Ecodis

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