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This talk by Raquel Renno Nunes from Article 19 and Thomas Lohninger from epicenter.works gives insights into the global civil society fight against the telecom industry. We will lift the veil about the lobbying of companies like Deutsche Telekom, Orange and A1 and showcase strategies how NGOs fought back in Latin America and Europe. This war for the open internet is only heating up. European Commissioner Henna Virkkunen for Digital will have in her hands to uphold net neutrality in Europe.
We want to extend our perspective by also looking at the successful fight in Latin America. Brazil in particular made their own experience with Zero-Rating tariffs that connected millions of Brazilians only to a selected few Apps instead of the whole internet. We will showcase how WhatsApp became a catalyst for the spread of fake news around the election of Jair Bolsonaro.