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ACTA Draft To Be Made Public Next Week
Spitfirem1 writes with this snippet from ZDNet: "Negotiators will on Wednesday publish the first officially released draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a new treaty designed to harmonize copyright enforcement around the world. The decision to release the consolidated draft on 21 April was made at the eighth round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations, which took place this week in Wellington, New Zealand. So far, the only publicly available information on the negotiating countries' proposals and amendments have been leaked documents purporting to be drafts of the agreement."
Or fuck knows . . . the treaty is being published after it's been ratified.
Um, like, what happened to political debate?
AFAIK the treaty still needs to be ratified by Congress before becoming enforceable.
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
The death toll from 9/11 was under 3000. 1500 Americans die from anaphylactic shock every year .
Seriously, without a hint of hyperbole, we - and Congress and the White House - should be more concerned about the threat from wasps than terrorists.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.