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WSJ Says Pro-ACTA Forces Helped Drive Anti-ACTA Reactions
pbahra writes with commentary from the Wall Street Journal: "Europeans will take to the streets this weekend in protest at the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, an international agreement that has given birth to an ocean full of red herrings. That so many have spawned is, say critics, in no small part down to the way in which this most controversial of international agreements was drawn up. If the negotiating parties had set out to stoke the flames of Internet paranoia they could not have done a better job. Accepted there are two things that should never be seen being made in public—laws and sausages—the ACTA process could be a case study of how not to do it. Conducted in secret, with little information shared except a few leaked documents, the ACTA talks were even decried by those who were involved in them."
A busted clock is right twice a day. Wikileaks is more interested in trying to compromise Western interests and have European service people killed (with their families) than actually being something of a positive nature. I'm sure that what China is doing in the former Tibet and other provinces, as well as what the Syrian and Iran governments are doing to their political prisoners on a day in and day out schedule would put to shame any of the US/European flub-ups. Those police states just make sure the stuff doesn't hit the news.