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The Netherlands Rejects ACTA, and Does One Better

Posted by timothy on from the don't-hold-your-breath-for-the-us-congress-to-join dept.

New submitter Peetke writes "The Dutch House of Representatives unanimously accepted a motion to urge the Cabinet to reject ACTA [Dutch original] (if they ever get the change to do so; it may already end in the European Parliament). Additionally, an even stronger motion was accepted to reject any future treaty that may harm a free and open Internet. This is a good day for the Internet."

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  1. if they ever get the change to do so by noh8rz3 · · Score: 3, Funny
    ftfs:

    if they ever get the change to do so

    I hope that the dutch parliament can find the change to pass this resolution! It sounds like the parliament is coin-operated. Have they looked between the couch cushions?

  2. Germany will do everything necessasry... by Tanuki64 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...to support the USA in their fight against weapons of mass destructions in the Netherlands.

  3. Clearly this is an act of war by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Send in Don Quixote!
    Only he can challenge their army of windmills.

    (hey, if nothing else, "Don Quixote vs. the Dutch" is a better plot than most of what the MPAA has been making in the last 30 years)

  4. Re:One of many reasons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Netherlands isn't socialist by any non-USian definition. According to Wikipedia, we're actually the oldest capitalist nation in the world. But don't let facts get in the way of a good quip.