The Internet creates fantastic new opportunities for business, cultural development and personal communications across Europe. But it also threatens the power and control of some traditional multinational businesses and government institutions. They have reacted by asking for new laws that would protect their interests at the expense of Europe's Internet users. These new rules would threaten the future of the Internet in Europe, but a majority of our politicians still seem to be listening to them

American Internet users have already mobilised to prevent this from happening in the United States. Now we need to do the same thing here to make sure special interests and misguided politicians don't kill the web in Europe.

Red Alert

The digital copyright threat : The most dangerous new proposed law is being pushed in Brussels by powerful multinational film, music and software companies. They are telling EU politicians that the Internet will turn us all into thieves, and want sweeping new laws that extend their rights on the Internet. If succeeds, they will destroy the Web as we know it. But they didn't succeed in America, and we can still stop them in Europe . But we have to act now.

Threats to privacy : A wide range of businesses, governments, and law-enforcement agencies want to watch what we do on the internet. We will lose our rights to privacy if we don't defend them.