The European Union is considering a dangerous new amendment to its Copyright Directive that will restrict speech and expression and potentially change the way many in Europe, and worldwide, experience the internet. Article 13 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market would effectively require Internet platforms – of all sizes – to […]
Read more →Transparency. We aim for it in most everything we do at Automattic. When it comes to legal demands from the government, being fully transparent can be hard and even impossible in cases where we are prohibited by law from revealing information about a legal request we receive. Nowhere is the lack of transparency more controversial […]
Read more →At Automattic, we’re very mindful of the trust our users place in us to keep their information private and secure, and we work hard to build systems, software, and legal policies to safeguard that information. We’re also very mindful of threats to user trust and security, and we believe that the recent federal court order, issued […]
Read more →Net neutrality – the principle that providers of internet service must treat all traffic equally – is a cornerstone of the free, open internet. This once-obscure principle has been in the news, as federal agencies, Congress, and even the President debated the proper scope of net neutrality regulations. Automattic supports net neutrality. We recently joined […]
Read more →We’re pleased to release the latest update to our transparency report, covering the period of January 1 – June 30, 2015. We try to make each new transparency report more…transparent, by adding new and more detailed information about the legal demands we receive, our responses to them, and the internal policies that guide our actions. […]
Read more →We strongly believe in the power of open source software, and have seen first hand how it can empower communities to build better software for an endless variety of applications, from the ground up. Bitcoin, and other digital currencies, are great examples of how open, community driven development can spark innovations that would be very […]
Read more →WordPress.com aims to democratize publishing – to build the tools that give writers, bloggers, and creators of all sizes a way to get their voices to the world. Today we see that our voices were heard, and that they had a big impact on the future of the internet. This morning, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler […]
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