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...and they just keep coming. ACTA now.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/
You thought we'd won when we defeated SOPA? No. These bastards just keep coming. ACTA is even worse. It is global in reach and gives a small number of corporations absolute power over everybody. Freedom isn't a part of their vision at all.
I'm reminded of people having to fend off zombies in horror movies -- the giant corporations are not alive but are relentless. It is extremely difficult to stop them, and they want to eat your brains.
They are proving to be the enemy of all of us. We desperately need ways to prevent the growth of mega-corporations. They are too big, too powerful, and too dangerous. And they don't care about human well-being at all. It would seem they don't even care about themselves too much either, having wrecked the very financial system they feed upon. Now they turn their dead eyes on us. Eeeek!
ACTA - a global treaty - could allow corporations to censor the Internet. Negotiated in secret by a small number of rich countries and corporate powers, it would set up a shadowy new anti-counterfeiting body to allow private interests to police everything that we do online and impose massive penalties -- even prison sentences -- against people they say have "harmed" their business.
The governments of four-fifths of the world’s people were excluded from the negotiations and unelected bureaucrats have worked closely with corporate lobbyists to craft new rules and a dangerously powerful enforcement regime. ACTA would initially cover the US, EU and 9 other countries, then be rolled out across the world. But if we can get the EU to say no now, the treaty will lose momentum and could stall for good.
The oppressively strict regulations could mean people everywhere are punished for simple acts such as sharing a newspaper article or uploading a video of a party where copyrighted music is played. Sold as a trade agreement to protect copyrights, ACTA could also ban lifesaving generic drugs and threaten local farmers' access to the seeds they need. And, amazingly, the ACTA committee will have carte blanche to change its own rules and sanctions with no democratic scrutiny.
Europe is deciding right now whether to ratify ACTA -- and without them, this global attack on Internet freedom will collapse. We know they have opposed ACTA before, but some members of Parliament are wavering -- let's give them the push they need to reject the treaty. Sign the petition -- we'll do a spectacular delivery in Brussels when we reach 500,000 signatures!
http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/
You thought we'd won when we defeated SOPA? No. These bastards just keep coming. ACTA is even worse. It is global in reach and gives a small number of corporations absolute power over everybody. Freedom isn't a part of their vision at all.
I'm reminded of people having to fend off zombies in horror movies -- the giant corporations are not alive but are relentless. It is extremely difficult to stop them, and they want to eat your brains.
They are proving to be the enemy of all of us. We desperately need ways to prevent the growth of mega-corporations. They are too big, too powerful, and too dangerous. And they don't care about human well-being at all. It would seem they don't even care about themselves too much either, having wrecked the very financial system they feed upon. Now they turn their dead eyes on us. Eeeek!
ACTA - a global treaty - could allow corporations to censor the Internet. Negotiated in secret by a small number of rich countries and corporate powers, it would set up a shadowy new anti-counterfeiting body to allow private interests to police everything that we do online and impose massive penalties -- even prison sentences -- against people they say have "harmed" their business.
The governments of four-fifths of the world’s people were excluded from the negotiations and unelected bureaucrats have worked closely with corporate lobbyists to craft new rules and a dangerously powerful enforcement regime. ACTA would initially cover the US, EU and 9 other countries, then be rolled out across the world. But if we can get the EU to say no now, the treaty will lose momentum and could stall for good.
The oppressively strict regulations could mean people everywhere are punished for simple acts such as sharing a newspaper article or uploading a video of a party where copyrighted music is played. Sold as a trade agreement to protect copyrights, ACTA could also ban lifesaving generic drugs and threaten local farmers' access to the seeds they need. And, amazingly, the ACTA committee will have carte blanche to change its own rules and sanctions with no democratic scrutiny.
Europe is deciding right now whether to ratify ACTA -- and without them, this global attack on Internet freedom will collapse. We know they have opposed ACTA before, but some members of Parliament are wavering -- let's give them the push they need to reject the treaty. Sign the petition -- we'll do a spectacular delivery in Brussels when we reach 500,000 signatures!
http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/