All 12 Member Countries Sign Off On the TPP (freezenet.ca)

Dangerous_Minds writes: News is surfacing that the TPP has officially been signed by all 12 member countries. This marks the beginning of the final step towards ratification. Freezenet has a quick rundown of what copyright provisions are contained in the agreement, including traffic shaping, site blocking, enforcement of copyright when infringement is "imminent," and a government mandate for ISPs to install backdoors for the purpose of tracking copyright infringement on the Internet.

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It's official, you all live in a Dictatorship

[WillAffleckUW]

Now any corporation can sure your country, but you can't vote on the selling out of your rights to foreign corporations.

Are you happy yet?

Days like this I wish I'd never helped create the Internet or the tools you use, or let it escape from academia.

Selling our sovereignty to corporations

[Sebby]

The TPP (or as I've seen it referred to - the "Tyrant Protection Plan") is nothing but a sham, no part of it has anything to do with 'trade', and all of it having to do with corporations ensuring their profits, at the cost of those countries' citizens.

Why else would they be permitted to sue countries/governments over alleged threats to their 'perceived potential profits' due to new laws (such as environment protections laws that might forbid those companies from operating under these new laws) passed by said countries.

Re:Selling our sovereignty to corporations

[gstoddart]

no part of it has anything to do with 'trade', and all of it having to do with corporations ensuring their profits, at the cost of those countries' citizens

That's what "trade" means these days, didn't you get the memo?

This whole TPP is basically the foundation of an international corporate bill of rights, which places the demands of corporations into law around the world.

Pushed by the US government, who are conveniently on the payroll and dedicated to advancing those corporate interests.

This "treaty" is pretty much the global oligarchy tightening the noose. Entrenching copyright, imaginary property, and making sure to be able to fight governments ability to pass laws is the entire fucking point.

Citizens? This isn't to benefit us ... unless you mean corporate citizens.

Re:Selling our sovereignty to corporations

[Sebby]

Time they read this.

Re:The Republicans are destroying our lives

[DarkOx]

Right, because an international agreement negotiated by a Democratic administration is some hope to be blamed on the Republican party.

Pull your head out of your ass. The Establishment is the problem, If you are remotely considering voting for HRC or Rubio, THIS IS YOUR FAULT.

Vote Sanders, or Vote Cruz as you like but do not allow HRC or Rubio to get nominated!

Re:The Republicans are destroying our lives

[Aighearach]

No, only Malaysia has ratified.

It is a silly headline. The 12 countries that agreed to have their negotiators, whose only authority is to negotiate the text, sign what they negotiated. This is not an approval step in any of these countries, or intended to be. It is just a signing ceremony. The news was months ago when they agreed to a text; countries that didn't agree then were not on the list they're using here. They make it sound like all the countries that negotiated signed. Not true at all. The countries that came to a deal, signed the deal as the first step towards referring it to their respective national processes.

Republicans in the US House have suggested that the only chance they'll have enough votes is if they pass it during the "lame duck" session after this year's Nov election. I agree that is their one chance, but I think they might have a hard time selling it to voters this year and if it is a major election issue then it won't pass the Senate. Elected Republicans mostly like it, but most Republican voters don't.

Re:The Republicans are destroying our lives

[Penguinisto]

^^This, a million fucking times this!

Corporatism knows no party, and cares for none but one driving ideology: profit.

The sooner you partisan asshats get that through your skulls, the better off we'll all be.

NOTE TO MODERATORS

[Anonymous Coward]

Moderators, please note that many of the comments in this thread are a troll replying to himself to make it appear like a conversation. It's one jackass who posts this type of spam on a regular basis, replying to himself as AC. And, of course, he never says anything of substance, just one line nonsense.

Here's one example: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8657315&cid=51359929 (posting about how Republicans want people to die)
Another example: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8685139cid=51400945 (making BS claims about Facebook tolerating and promoting gun violence)
Yet another: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8700601&cid=51428235 (Claiming that Republicans are always tracking and spying on everyone)

There are others. It's almost certainly one assclown who ought to be banned or at least modded into oblivion. I'm hoping the new owners get rid of some of the shit like this. I don't really mind real trolls that post on-topic stuff. Some of it's actually pretty damn funny. Even some of the old -1 logged-in posters like cyborg_monkey were entertaining. Besides, they didn't waste mod points because they were already at -1 and you could easily avoid reading them. But I'd like to see really stupid nonsense like this go away. As one user said, real trolls would either make us laugh or piss us off; this guy does neither and is just a waste.

Re:The Republicans are destroying our lives

[Gavagai80]

Clinton and Sanders are both against the TPP. Not sure why you're spewing anti-Hillary stuff here.

Clinton was in favor of the TPP until recently when she realized she has to be against it to win the primary. There's every reason to think she'd be for it again if elected.

Re:Signed, not Ratified...

[mrchaotica]

The TPP might actually be a net financial gain for the United States

...at the cost of a net civil rights loss for United States Citizens. And that's the fucking problem! The whole goddamn thing is an omnibus bill of all the freedom-destroying shit the oligarchs and lobbyists can't jam through Congress halfway-legitimately.