ACTA: Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

[YourMacManDan]

 

[andrew61]

So what do I have to do to stop ACTA?

 

[Autom3]

not SOPA all over again... (i know its not exactly the same but meh)

 

[michaelavena]

Do politicians have GOOD ideas anymore?

 

[Godspeedz]

*facepalm*

NWO anybody?

 

[Shared21]

You cant get into politics without being influenced by some party. No matter how hard you try, they'll blackmail you or cut your funds and bribe you in order to pass their laws. Possible reasons, thats just my speculation but it is most likely true.

 

[YourMacManDan]

NWO anybody?

Yes, I am well aware of that conspiracy... I have known about this for a long time...

 

[Yennage]

I say we skip the whole NWO thing and just go straight to the lizard people running the earth:

 

[michaelavena]

Or we could all just die and let the apes take over.

 

[_Leprince]

Americans need to deal with corporate lobbyists.

All nations of the world need to deal with corporate lobbyists.


Corruption is sad.

 

[YourMacManDan]

Got an email from "Fight for Future" again...

SOPA's supporters are pushing two agreements: ACTA and TPP[SUP]1[/SUP]. ACTA would criminalize users, encourage internet providers to spy on you, and make it easier for media companies to sue sites out of existence and jail their founders. Sound familiar?That's right, ACTA is from the same playbook as SOPA, but global. Plus it didn't even have to pass through Congress[SUP]2[/SUP].TPP goes even farther than ACTA, and the process has been even more secretive and corrupt. Last weekend (we wish this was a joke) trade negotiators partied with MPAA (pro-SOPA) lobbyists before secret negotiations in a Hollywood hotel, while public interest groups were barred from meeting in the same building.[SUP]3[/SUP]
Trade agreements are a gaping loophole, a secretive backdoor track that--even though it creates new laws--is miles removed from democracy. Trade negotiators are unelected and unaccountable, so these agreements have been very hard for internet rights groups to stop.
But now the tide is turning. Fueled by the movement to stop SOPA, anti-ACTA protests are breaking out across the EU, which hasn't ratified ACTA. The protests are having an impact: leaders in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia have backtracked on ACTA.[SUP]4[/SUP] Now a massive round of street protests in over 200 cities is planned for this Saturday February 11th.
We're planning an online protest this Saturday to support the protests in the streets. Why? Because together we can drive millions of emails to key decision makers--and start tipping the scales like we did on SOPA.

MCA could help support this by putting a script with a pop up...

Can you take part? Click here to get the code to run on your site!

 

[Androcks]

Good lord... Anonymous is going to be BUSY soon...

 

[YourMacManDan]

When the governments stop f@#$@#$ with the internet, peace will be restored on the inter webs.

 

[Androcks]

Unfortunately there is a little thing called corporations. Who have a lot of a little thing called money. Which can do a humongous thing called influence people.