What Is TPP? It’s the Biggest Global Threat to the Internet Since ACTA
Monday, April 29th, 2013. Filed under: Alternative Knowledge Big Brother Censorship Conspiracy Orwellian World The Awakening Katitza Rodriguez and Maira SuttonEFF The United States and ten governments from around the Pacific are meeting yet again to hash out the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) on May 15-24 in Lima, Peru. The [...]
The Return of ACTA: U.S. Dictating Canada’s Intellectual Property Laws
In March, the Canadian government introduced a bill that would bring about sweeping changes to its copyright and trademark laws. This includes giving more power to customs and border protection agents without any judicial oversight. The move is intended to prevent counterfeit goods from entering the country, but has been [...]
Categories: News Feeds Tags: ACTA, Canada’s, Dictating, Intellectual, Laws, Property, Return, U.S.
European Commission Looks To Backdoor In ACTA By Pushing For Same Results Through ‘Voluntarism’
This year saw two huge victories for digital activism: against SOPA in the US, and against ACTA in the EU. The big question is now: what will be the next moves of those behind SOPA and ACTA as they seek to regain the initiative? For SOPA, we’ve had a clue [...]
Categories: Internet Tags: ACTA, European Commission, ISP, legislation
Obamas Privacy Policy: Is The Internet Threatened Again?
WebProNews Reports: The Obama Administration announced a privacy plan last week in hopes of increasing protections for consumer privacy. The Administration has been working toward this effort for several months and has created a framework consisting of a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, a multi-stakeholder process to determine how the [...]
Categories: Internet Tags: ACTA, freedom, internet, internet freedom, Obamas Privacy Policy: Is The Internet Threatened Again?, pipa, privacy, SOPA, tpp
Fight For The Future: SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, TPP
Hi– Together, we beat SOPA in a huge victory for internet freedom. But this Saturday, internet freedom protests are breaking out in over 200 cities across Europe. Why? Because the companies behind SOPA are using international trade agreements as a backdoor to pass SOPA-style laws SOPA’s supporters are pushing two agreements: ACTA [...]
SOPA Revisited: How Democracy Works
“It’s motivating because this was a decentralized movement. Lots of people with great ideas started contributing and it started to get momentum,” Ohanian added. “This idea went viral. It’s powerful when you think we’ve now hit this critical mass. We can get a message out there that actually affects politicians.” [...]
USWGO Does not recognize ACTA as a legal treaty in the United States of America
USWGO Alternative News USWGO Does not recognize ACTA as a legal treaty in the United States of America Posted: I Brian D. Hill of USWGO Alternative News and Production Committee does not recognize the validity of ACTA (§ 1 Definitions) being ratified due to the circumstances and evidence attached in [...]
Categories: U.S.W.G.O Tags: ACTA, ACTA United States of America, not a legal treaty, USWGO Does not recognize ACTA
ACTA – Reasons To Stop This Piece Of ‘Big Brother Garbage’
Here we go again… ACTA is yet another SOPA and PIPA that has been in the works for awhile. Coupled with secrecy, lack of accountability of the policy makers, ‘Big Brother’ Styled ruling and enforcement and then some. What Is ACTA? ACTA is a ‘plurilateral’ trade agreement, currently being negotiated [...]
Categories: Internet Tags: ACTA, Big Brother, Reasons To Stop ACTA, Stop ACTA Right Now!, Your Internet Rights Are Being Compromised
ACTA – Are They Act-ing Up Again?
Dear friends, A new global treaty could allow corporations to police everything that we do on the Internet. Last week 3 million of ussuccessfully pushed back the US censorship bills – if we act now, we can get the EU Parliament to bury this new threat to all of us: Last week, [...]
Categories: Internet Tags: ACTA, Are They Act-ing Up Again?, internet censorship, New Internet Censorship Proposals
