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EU Parliment To Vote On ACTA Soon; Take Action Now
sTeF writes "Laquadrature du Net releases 3 videos on ACTA: Every citizen can help defeat ACTA by spreading this video across the Internet, urging their fellow citizens to mobilize, and contacting their elected representatives. ACTA is a threat to Internet users' fundamental freedoms and to EU Internet companies' competitiveness and free competition. The European Parliament will soon decide whether to give its consent to ACTA, or to reject it once and for all."
"Reject it once and for all"?
I find your naivety charming but have no need for your newsletter.
That video generates more questions in my brain than it answers. "ACTA is bad, nnkay?" it says, which is not enough. The extremely one-side view on ACTA the video provides sickens me. It doesn't even tell me who "The Negotiators" are. I can't say "No" to ACTA based on this video alone.
-- Cheers!
maybe s/he doesnt know. s/he should. dont risk it.
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Please stop making a fuss about ACTA if you can not objectively tell us what is it going to do and why should we even oppose it.
Um... no. You should oppose it for this exact reason. What exactly it will do is so multi-faceted and so deeply buried in legal speak it requires a book to explain. This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. — Winston Churchill
Upward mobility is a slippery slope - the higher you climb the more you show your ass.
ACTA's secrecy is the biggest reason to vote against it.
Why? Because it's something that the powers that be are afraid we would oppose if we knew what was going on.
Oh wait, we're just citizen peons. We don't get to vote on it.
Only the government does.
And with no way to recall someone from congress after we've elected them, what incentive do they have to vote how we wanted them to when we elected them?
If it's lucrative enough someone can easily sacrifice their political career for a handsome payoff in the private sector.
Or assume rightly in most cases that if they pull a fast one early enough the electorate will have long forgotten by the time campaign time comes around again.
The purpose of treaties like this is to bypass such requirements as amending constitutions and getting a democratic majority. This way, a very few individuals of merit (bribed) can create and institute regulations that supersede national constitutions without bothering you or your elected representative with details until the enforcement phase. It also allows elected representatives to claim plausible deniability when the political fallout hits and since you do not know who the original negotiators were, no one is held accountable.
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