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Telecommunication Union (</span><a style="border-bottom-color: rgb(21, 182, 184); border-left-color: rgb(21, 182, 184); border-right-color: rgb(21, 182, 184); border-top-color: rgb(21, 182, 184); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(21, 182, 184); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; text-decoration: underline" href="https://www.itu.int/en/Pages/default.aspx">ITU</a></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert">)
global and regional estimates for 2018 are “a pointer to the great strides the world is making towards building a more inclusive global information society,” Houlin Zhao, ITU Secretary-General, said.
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record figure of 3.9 billion people, or 51.2 per cent that will be online by the end of December, is an important milestone in the digital revolution, according to the ITU”
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EU negotiators in Strasbourg struggled to craft the final language of the Copyright in the Single Digital Market Directive, in their last possible meeting for 2019.
</span>They failed, thanks in large part to the Directive’s two most controversial clauses: Article 11, which requires paid licenses for linking to news stories while including more than a word or two; and Article 13, which will lead to the creation of error-prone
copyright censorship algorithms that will block users from posting anything that has been identified as a copyrighted work — even if that posting is lawful.”
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