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| Posted: 28 Jan 2012 07:06 AM PST (hubze) We have a visual: a new enemy has risen out of the ashes of SOPA/PIPA and it is super ugly– ACTA is a global anti-piracy bill that will neuter the internet once and for all. As you may have heard, SOPA/PIPA are controversial anti-piracy bills that were crushed by the combined backlash of voters and Internet Gods: Facebook, Google, Wikipedia, Twitter and many others. Respected figures across the web reproached both bills in many a blog posts, while frenzied everyday users heckled supporters of the bill, who apparently had a little pirate in them too. Unfortunately, ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement which implies many of the things in SOPA) is much bigger than SOPA/PIPA. In fact, just last week, 22 of 27 countries of the European Union Ratified ACTA. The remaining countries are expected to bend over, I mean sign, eventually, under the strain of peer pressure. And when I say peer pressure, this is what I mean: Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and the United States (all signed ACTA in October of last year). Obama vaguely mentioned piracy abroad last year in his State of the Union address, having signed the bill on a trip to Japan last year. The goal of ACTA is to globally normalize copyright protection and IP standards… But…Check-out this video below put together by Anonymous and meet ACTA: Click here to view the embedded video. These bills have good intentions but by regulating the flow of information, you are simultaneously regulating free speech– it’s that simple. Freedom of information and freedom of speech have to exist simultaneously in the Millennium; you can’t have one without the other. ACTA is more dangerous than SOPA or PIPA combined because congress would be restricted from changing it. According to U.S. Represenative Darrell Issa, in a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, “It purports that it does not change existing laws. But once implemented, it creates a whole new enforcement system and will virtually tie the hands of Congress to undo it.” (image: le blog david hammerstein)      |
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