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Post-ACTA Agreement CETA Moving Forward With Similar Provisions
rrohbeck writes "From eff.org: 'The shadow of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is back in Europe. It is disguised as CETA, the Canada-European Union and Trade Agreement. A comparison of the leaked draft Canada-EU agreement shows the treaty includes a number of the same controversial provisions, specifically concerning criminal enforcement, private enforcement by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and harsh damages.'"
they've got full time jobs doing this sorta thing. I suppose you could hire someone to fight on your behalf, but who's got enough disposable income for even that. Basically, if you're rich enough to fight ACTA you're probably rich enough to a) not care and b) benefit.
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just start beating them up and on mass rioting near there homes and where they live
time for chaos they want to make it hard for us lets really give them a fucking taste of democracy pitch fork style.....
It's a good thing that the copyright has expired on that Shakespeare quote otherwise they'd be after me.
Shove that up your ACTA and watch the CETA flow !!
These Canadians, why do they continue to act like a back stabbers to the freedom, why? And there was a time when it was the opposite...
Before somebody thinks of blaming us.
Finally! A year of moderation! Ready for 2019?
Guys, I'm gonna make it easy for you: You can't possibly follow all the laws. Everyone is a criminal. And it's been that way for a long time now -- they've had a reason to get rid of anyone they want for a long time now. And who's they? Well, them, you know, the guys, the illuminati, the conspiracy, the wizard of oz, whatever. People who are more powerful than you. Accept this.
Following the law is no longer a measure of ethical behavior, and neither is violating it. This is just part of the typical evolution of societies -- Rome had the same problem, right before the Visigoths came marching over the 7th hill. Laws grow increasingly complex, eventually strangling and murdering the very things it was instituted to correct. And then, out of the ashes, comes a new society, that advances to the butter zone, reaches its golden age... and then murders itself.
No matter where you are in the cycle, the answer has always been the same: Do what you feel is right, for you'll be punished for it anyway. The law has never been there to guide the behaviors and actions of a moral and ethical person... it exists solely to educate unethical and immoral people on how to go about their business without getting noticed. That's why ethical people don't say "But it's illegal!" -- they say "That's wrong." The only people who place a high importance on the legality of a thing are the unethical... and if they have a modicum of power and wealth, then they're probably busy passing laws to rob Peter to pay Paul, and trying to convince others that legal = ethical.
Don't buy their story: Do what you feel is right, and fuck the law.
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because only the major parties have the money to win. You need money for mass media. To get a message out and to hone that message to perfection.
What America really needs is to start moving back to the left. Conservativism has made progress a dirty word. We're panicking about jobs while automation is making the concept obsolete.
But I doubt you'll see that. More likely you'll see a gradual slide into dark ages.
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By the time election round comes -- a) you forgot about the issues, b) the official got a cushy new job and will leave anyway and c) the competitor is even worse.
Why the hell are you waiting for the general election. You should be voting in the primaries, at least. Your rep doesn't vote the way you want? Deny him renomination for his party's slot on the ballot.
If you're really serious, get involved in a party's other activities. Become an officer, a delegate, etc. And be aware that it's a WAR, not a bunch of nice people playing by the rules. You have to hold their feet to the fire at all stages.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
You can't win...they've got full time jobs doing this sorta thing.
Which is why you can't go to sleep after you win the first battle. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." Tyrants are the moles in a very high stakes whack-a-mole game.
Thanks, EFF, for keeping track of these bloodsuckers.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
They'll never die. They'll never forget. They'll never forgive. They'll never give up.
It's their law, and if you want to stay, you are going to get buried under reams of paperwork.
It's like answering to trolls (orarguing with an idiot, to cite the first recommendation bout the issue).
If rich nations had an economy based on bacon, you can rest assured:
a) bacon would only be produced by them or under their supervision (and control);
b) independent bacon producers would be called "pirates" (because they would be stealing the rich nations profits!) and
c) you'd have lots and lots of treaties to ensure the rich nation laws would propagate into other countries.
So, what is the solution?
Simple: don't play this game.
Create an independent designation and organizations for trade of indeependent media, free by default -- which require explicit prohibition to be made impossible to copy.
The law we have now is: things can be copied, unless there are restrictions (like copyright).
They want to make it work backwards: the general rule will be don't copy anything -- unless you're authorized to do it... on a case-by case analysis.
It's songs now. They want to cut a slice on any transfer, just by making illegal the transfers they don't supervise. Then it will extend to software and ultimately to any transfer of knowledge.
It looks like fiction wants to become real.
...is eternal vigilance. Seems to ring pretty true.
Fucking Arsole Retarded Twit Shitheads
like you whom bend over and are part of the problem in fact YOU are the enemy and in fact most of the people like you if we really traced you back work for what you say you cannot fight....
freedom is not free we must always know when to self sacrifice for it for the betterment of all. THIS CRAP DOES NOT HELP MANKIND and ONLY HELPS A FEW GREEDY IDIOTS.....
If this is ever stopped, then the article title for it should be... CETA Sings The Blues
YEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
"Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded." -Archbishop Fulton Sheen
In Switzerland the people can instigate referenda and overturn government decisions. It takes about 100,000 signatures to trigger a referendum on an issue.
That's the work-around they've found around democracy (first, and then) freedom, and they are applying it now, going full-throttle.
"Trump!!", the new Godwin.
Just got out of mod points, when I needed the most...!
Please mod parent up! Grandparent got modded +5 insightful with a defeatist tirade.
The parent got it right.
Anyone? C'mon. Someone's gotta be surprised by this news.
In the 1800s politicians would either be tarred and feathered or simply shot for way less than our so called elected leaders get away with today.
The Canadian Government tried to push crap like this through 1 year ago. They ignored the outcry till it hit them. They need to be shown why this is bad (again).
"We want.. more money!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6fp95uGfM
They've finally found a reason!
-AC
As Bits of Freedom (a Dutch EDRi member) wrote last month.
How, in a democracy, does one go about passing a highly unpopular law? Easy: One simply does it in secret, making no announcements and not revealing the purpose or text to any but a select few. The public cannot oppose what they do not know about.
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Thanks Wikipedia!
Isn't this basically a dupe of the story I submitted back in July?
Not that the public shouldn't be reminded again. CETA and other ACTA clones need to die.
The Dutch voted no to Europe in a referendum, so all the parties ignored it, renamed the treaty and passed it anyway.
The only way to fix the issue is to get rid of the party system and introduce abinding referendum that is then enacted by businessmen who do what they are told and not what they believe.
Because at the core of the fault with the party system is that all politicians believe. Not in a religion but in their ideology and all ideologies are wrong 99% of the time. You can't run a country on the idea of how things should be, you need to run it with how things are. Doesn't matter what you believe in, it is wrong. The free market? Doesn't work without at least some oversight. 5 year plans? Don't work without at least some short term free market system to keep things dynamic.
And you can't change the system because will be to scared of loosing their vote buyer. In the Netherlands the biggest one is the mortage tax deduction. It is a hot potato that could easily turn one of the richest nations on earth into one of the poorest if it collapses but nobody can touch it because any party that dares to even suggest reform will loose the election.
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I agree for the simple reason that if they're hell bent on passing it come hell or high water we may as well let them have the cake they're taking from us at gunpoint.
Why don't we just find out who the authors are, doxx them, and then murder them? Done and done.