op-ed by Arthur Messaud

7th of November 2018 - Last week, we explained that decentralizing the web would bring hope to organize our online exchanges democratically, to counter the hegemony of the online attention economy. Indeed, the GAFAMs are distorting our exchanges for economical reasons while propounding hateful, caricatural, violent or even paid statements... to the detriment of others. This must be fixed.

30th of October 2018 – The adoption of the Copyright Directive and the recent debates about "Fake News" have been an introduction to the more general discussion about the regulation of the Internet, which will be held (FR) this year. Today, La Quadrature du Net submits some practical proposals.

Op-ed by Lunar, member of La Quadrature du Net

Op-ed by Taziden, member of La Quadrature du Net

On 20 June, searches were carried out1 at the homes of several board members of the German association "Zwiebelfreunde". All their computers and storage media (hard drives, USB keys) were seized by the German police.

• 1. Police searches homes of "Zwiebelfreunde“ board members as well as „OpenLab“ in Augsburg, ccc.de, 04/07/2018 ; Coordinated raids of Zwiebelfreunde at various locations in Germany, torservers.net, 04/07/2018

Paris, 6 November 2017 - La Quadrature du Net republishes below an op-ed by Oriane, President of the French Federation of associated providers of internet access, regarding the European Electronic Communications Code and its political implications. This op-ed was originally on her blog (in French).

LQDN is publishing here an op-ed by Okhin.

Paris, 10 April 2017 — Online video platforms (most notably YouTube and Facebook) have surpassed television in audience count, making these media extremely important in terms of how they represent society. They constitute a place of public expression, run by private companies, which permit many persons, cultures, subcultures, and social groups to exist, to communicate among themselves, and to be seen. Certainly there are initiatives and free alternatives, but none of them can hope to reach the level of presence of these platforms.

OpEd by Jérémie Zimmermann, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net, published in Mediapart on 5 June 2014

The proposal by the European Commission on Net neutrality is currently under discussion in the European Parliament. All committees that were appointed to express an opinion on it have come to their conclusions, except for Civil liberties (LIBE) committee, whose report will be voted on 12 February.

On September 11th, the European Commission adopted an important legislative package geared to achieve the European Single Market of telecommunication and build thereby a connected continent.

by Jérémie Zimmermann

Snowden revelations shed light on facts that force us to ask ourselves important questions and to take action that might be essential for the future of our online societies and for the very structure of our political systems.

These documents confirm what many hackers and citizens suspected: a generalized surveillance by the NSA and other intelligence services of all personal communications over the Internet. What was a few month ago often dismissed as "conspiracy theory" or "paranoïa" turns out to be actually much less than the crude reality.