[ubuntu-uk] Restricting the Open Internet - is this a threat to Open Source

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

On 31/01/14 11:45, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Martin Dixon wrote:
>
>> The US and the EU are on the verge of giving rich corporations the
>> right to control what we all see online -- but we can stop it if we
>> build the largest call for a democratic and free Internet ever. Join
>> me in this campaign here:
>> http://www.avaaz.org/en/internet_apocalypse_pa_eu/?kbnbtab
> What does signing up here achieve? Aren't avaaz petitions basically a
> more feel-good version of a Facebook like?
>

I think that ANY method of disseminating this threat has to be good,
even if it's only a "feel-good version of Facebook"... :-)