bigger and worse
Jan. 22nd, 2012 06:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eliyesSo, what would be "better" than SOPA?
If it were INTERNATIONAL!
Meet ACTA. ACTA stands for Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, an international trade agreement currently negotiated by the European Union, the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia, and more. The negotiations have been SECRET. Leaked documents pertaining to those secret negotiations reveal alarming curtailing of personal liberty for internet users on a global scale. Learn more about ACTA here and here.
From the EFF page:
"The agreement requires signatory countries to “endeavor to promote cooperative efforts within the business community” to address copyright and trademark infringement. This could lead to “voluntary agreements” by Internet intermediaries to restrict Internet access and to monitor and censor Internet communications under threat of legislation or criminal sanctions. Read together with ACTA’s broad injunction powers, this will exacerbate existing pressures on Internet intermediaries to monitor, censor and block online communications, and stifle freedom of expression across the globe."
Last year The UN declared internet access a Human Right. Doesn't it seem like governments have been working hard on ways to violate that right ever since?
If it were INTERNATIONAL!
Meet ACTA. ACTA stands for Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, an international trade agreement currently negotiated by the European Union, the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia, and more. The negotiations have been SECRET. Leaked documents pertaining to those secret negotiations reveal alarming curtailing of personal liberty for internet users on a global scale. Learn more about ACTA here and here.
From the EFF page:
"The agreement requires signatory countries to “endeavor to promote cooperative efforts within the business community” to address copyright and trademark infringement. This could lead to “voluntary agreements” by Internet intermediaries to restrict Internet access and to monitor and censor Internet communications under threat of legislation or criminal sanctions. Read together with ACTA’s broad injunction powers, this will exacerbate existing pressures on Internet intermediaries to monitor, censor and block online communications, and stifle freedom of expression across the globe."
Last year The UN declared internet access a Human Right. Doesn't it seem like governments have been working hard on ways to violate that right ever since?
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Date: 2012-01-23 05:24 am (UTC)B|
B|!!!
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Date: 2012-01-23 07:23 am (UTC)The world is a scary place, my kiff. :(
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Date: 2012-01-23 09:30 am (UTC)On the upside, the internet community has shown it can act together to achieve a goal, so hopefully that resolution will only grow as time goes on.
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Date: 2012-01-23 09:34 am (UTC)