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The Online Safety Act is creating a buzz of controversy and concern, not least if you run or host websites and are uncertain about your new legal responsibilities. Some online spaces have already closed down and others like Wikipedia may be under threat. Meanwhile workarounds have proliferated in defiance of technological measures to prevent harm and assert control of the internet.…

Urgent Update from our APC colleagues at 7amleh - 12 June 2025 – Gaza is now enduring its third consecutive day of a total communications crisis. The blackout began on 10 June with the targeting of the main fiber backbone connecting Gaza City and North Gaza, resulting in a full collapse of internet and landline services in those areas. As of 12 June, the damage has spread across the central and…

Our friends at APC picked our brains about our recent Ethical Consumer certification, GreenNet history and other matters, GreenNet is not your regular tech organisation: it’s an organisation that has values, and supports activism and campaigning. Read the interview here: https://www.apc.org/en/news/greennet-named-top-broadband-and-email-provider-uk-we-are-part-community-we-serve

Sending a big Hello to Salamander News, a local media co-op and a community benefit society from southeast London, owned by its members, who launched their new website this week at www.salamandernews.org hosted by GreenNet, Salamander will be providing independent, local news for Lewisham and nearby boroughs in SE London. We publish rigorous, fact-based reporting on the news and issues that…

We have been on the platform for over 15 years, and we've had enough - the Twitter that we used to enjoy is no more, sadly Twitter's URL redirects to x.com now. The factors that have finally forced us out are firstly: we don't want any association with Elon Musk. Secondly the content of Twitter has deteriorated, partly due to changes in the algorithm and user accounts, but also partly because…

GreenNet Email and Broadband are rated Best Buys by Ethical Consumer Magazine in their latest issue on Good Tech. We were first awarded the certificate over a decade ago and we're proud to see our email and broadband are rated top of the charts this year, reflecting our dedication and commitment to continually improving sustainable ethical access to the internet for our members. You can see a…

Dear GreenNet friends, December 2024 It's time once again for our annual GreenNet winter newsletter. We'd like to thank new and longstanding GreenNet users for your support in 2024 and wish you a very merry festive season. We've been keeping busy this year as usual. In 2024 we welcomed new customers from Footprint Co-op, launched new websites for our customers and connected thousands of…

GreenNet hosts Ghost! A powerful app for professional publishers to create, share, and grow a business around their content. It comes with modern tools to build a website, publish content, send newsletters & offer paid subscriptions to members. and an open source alternative to Substack. Among other useful open source/FLOSS platforms that we host for our INGO NGO charity and activist…

We would like to draw your attention to the work of long-time GreenNet customers at HI in Gaza, and their call for an immediate ceasefire HI is alarmed by the very high number of civilian victims, the lack of safe humanitarian access and the limited number of trucks being able to enter the Gaza strip daily. Along with more than 800 organisations, HI is calling for an immediate ceasefire to put an…

GreenNet joined APC staff, members and associates in Chiang Mai last month for the APC Community Gathering, along with 229 of us coming from 46 countries joined 43 events including plenaries, participant-led sessions and regional meetings, 40 lightning talks, presentations, pop-up sessions and project meetings, and several social events, including film screenings, meals and a lively karaoke…