Mexico’s Proposed Telecom Law Would Bring In Censorship, Allow Surveillance and Kill Net Neutrality
Jesús Villaseca Pérez. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Protests Mount Against Mexico’s Proposed Telecommunications Law, Which Would Bring In Censorship, Allow Real-time Surveillance And Kill Net Neutrality (via Techdirt) Many people will be familiar with the name Carlos Slim as intermittently the richest person in the world, generally vying with Bill Gates for that title. Some will […]
Jesús Villaseca Pérez. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
Protests Mount Against Mexico’s Proposed Telecommunications Law, Which Would Bring In Censorship, Allow Real-time Surveillance And Kill Net Neutrality (via Techdirt)
Many people will be familiar with the name Carlos Slim as intermittently the richest person in the world, generally vying with Bill Gates for that title. Some will probably be aware that his huge fortune — currently listed as $69.67 billion in his…
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Twenty years ago, on Jan 1, 1994, a trade deal championed by Democratic President Bill Clinton went into effect The North American Free Trade Agreement was meant to integrate the economies of the United States, Canada and Mexico by breaking down trade barriers among them, creating jobs and closing the wage gap between the US and Mexico Twenty years ago, on Jan .
Well, it's not Bill Gates, but the Microsoft mastermind did come in second place in this year's countdown of Forbes' top 10 wealthiest people in the world. So who was No. 1? That would be Mexico's Carlos Slim, for the second year in a row.
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