Leaked draft confirms TPP will censor Internet

[Lord_Kitty]

Source: https://openmedia.ca/news/leaked-draft-confirms-tpp-will-censor-internet-and-stifle-free-expression-worldwide

Go read it if you are really interested in the topic (its not very long). I have not included all the info in this post.

 

 

 

This morning Wikileaks published a second leaked draft of the Intellectual Property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The draft confirms people’s worst fears about Internet censorship. That’s according to community-based organization OpenMedia, which is leading a large international Fair Deal Coalition aimed at securing balanced copyright rules for the 21st Century.

 

“It is hugely disappointing to see that, yet again, Canadians - and members of the public worldwide - have to be informed about these critical issues through leaked drafts, instead of through democratic engagement on the part of governments and elected officials,” said OpenMedia Campaigns Coordinator Meghan Sali.

 

 

 

 

Sali continued, “It is now clearer than ever that we need a positive alternative to this secretive process. It is unacceptable to design and impose new laws through closed-door processes that disenfranchise individuals around the world and shut off debate on important issues that will affect all of our futures. This is what the Our Digital Future report, released just yesterday, is all about - challenging the notion that we can’t make these laws in a more democratic manner.”

 

 

This morning, copyright and digital rights expert, Prof. Michael Geist, weighed in on his blog about the most recent leaked draft, noting that the Canadian negotiators have been opposing U.S. pressure to introduce stricter enforcement for patent and copyright law - with the strongest pushback coming in the “patents, enforcement, trademarks and copyright sections.”

 

Oh, the patent laws are working SOOOO WEEELL. Lets make it even better. *Facepalm*

 

 

 

About the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement:

 

The TPP is one of the most far-reaching international free trade agreements in history. We know from leaked TPP draft texts that participating nations would be bound to much stricter and more extreme copyright laws than now exist under current national laws. These new rules would criminalize much online activity, invade citizens’ privacy, and significantly impact our ability to share and collaborate online.

 

Negotiators from 12 of the TPP negotiating nations—Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Peru, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United States— are meeting in Asia this week to discuss these changes without input from the public, creators, or most businesses.

 

 

OpenMedia.ca is running some campains against possibilities of censorship of the internet. Go sign up to show your support. Maybe it will make a difference...

 

 

About OpenMedia.ca

OpenMedia.ca is an award-winning community-based organization that safeguards the possibilities of the open Internet. We work toward informed and participatory digital policy by engaging hundreds of thousands of people in protecting our online rights.

Through campaigns such as StopTheMeter.ca and StopSpying.ca, OpenMedia.ca has engaged over half-a-million Canadians, and has influenced public policy and federal law.

 

[Tech_Dreamer]

If wiki leaks wasn't there to report this, who would've known?

[Toddwjp]

this is why websites like wiki leaks exist because we cant trust them (goverments) to do shit,

 

gonna have to start using the darkweb again.

[Astralify]

Conspiracy does not exist. Trust me. /sarcasm

[SirRoderick]

Well Gobblesticks...

 

You know, SOMEtimes the anarchists seem like really reasonable people.

[Mattk50]

Conspiracy does not exist. Trust me. /sarcasm

What are you? a dirty conspiracy theorist?

[Astralify]

What are you? a dirty conspiracy theorist?

I just took a shower. I'm not dirty anymore.

[APrettyCoolWalrus]

What are you? a dirty conspiracy theorist?

 

The best and worst conspiracy theorist ever. Good luck!

@Trik'Stari

[The_Strict_Nein]

Good thing I live in Britain, they can't do shit to me without breaking International law.

[Theo]

Inb5 games require darkweb connection in order to play online

[cesrai]

@Trik'Stari We need you.

[cesrai]

this is why websites like wiki leaks exist because we cant trust them (goverments) to do shit,

 

gonna have to start using the darkweb again.

What is that?? I'm serious don't know what is that.

[thebennyboy]

I guess i'll continue using my VPN then. Anyone else? 

[Toddwjp]

What is that?? I'm serious don't know what is that.

using tor to access non indexed servers, 

[shujin]

yeah everyone will be illegal well at least us people really need to get their head out of their ass and do something (yeah I know they don't care but well.... why humanity is stupid)

[cesrai]

using tor to access non indexed servers,

That is the darkweb.

[Toddwjp]

That is the darkweb.

 

yep, because there non indexed there called dark because you can see them using a normal search engine

[PatrikStar24]

Trik'Stari
I see things getting worse (at least here in the USA anyway) before they get better.

 

[Shalashaska]

@Trik'Stari

 

Since nobody managed to tag him correctly I thought I'd do it.

[bob345]

well, time to make our own internet.

[That Norwegian Guy]

I just pray the sub-human generation capable of thinking in these depraved patterns of spiral logic die out before they get the chance to do any real damage. It's time to acknowledge that the Homo Sapien is subtly different from myself, and hopefully about to go extinct, because I will not associate with this vermin in any sort of connection, no matter how thin the link.

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

Good thing I live in Britain, they can't do shit to me without breaking International law.

The laws are all part of the "system". We are all screwed.

[Tonylu1595]

Well now this makes sense to me.

[Redheadsrule13]

I think that this might come in handy, seeming as we don't have any way to change the inevitable obsessive control of the internet par mass rioting.

[Humbug]

glad I don't live in the USA. They cannot directly exert any control on foreign ISPs. What they can do over the next few years is lobby other governments to impose the same restrictions. The fact that this process is happening behind closed doors is disgraceful.