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President Obama Gives Up On The Trans-Pacific Partnership (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes The Guardian:
White House officials conceded on Friday that the president's hard-fought-for Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal would not pass Congress, as lawmakers there prepared for the anti-global trade policies of President-elect Donald Trump. Earlier this week, congressional leaders in both parties said they would not bring the trade deal forward during a lame-duck session of Congress, before the formal transition of power on January 20.
One Canadian law professor had argued the case against the TPP included its unbalanced intellectual property rules and risks to privacy, while the EFF believed it locked in the worst parts of U.S. copyright law and also exported them to other countries.
One Canadian law professor had argued the case against the TPP included its unbalanced intellectual property rules and risks to privacy, while the EFF believed it locked in the worst parts of U.S. copyright law and also exported them to other countries.
The public was excluded from every phase of the process, despite the fact that it would have force of law over all of us. For a long time all we knew about it was from leaks, and the government completely ignored our protests.
I am glad to see this go. Bummed about the surveillance mentioned in a previous article, though.
Regardless of which laws pass and who the president is, the primary takeaway here is obvious: the president doesn't give a shit about you.
No. The one chapter us nerds mostly care about was about copyright. The TPP is a humongously long document covering dozens if not hundreds of business interests.
Unfortunately from what I've seen, almost every single one of those chapters includes at least something that should make normal people afraid in some way.
There's a reason why the pro-TPP lobby can't even come up with a selling point beyond how much money could theoretically be made (for their companies and basically no one else.. but they also leave that part off of course.)
Forgot about the part which would allow businesses to import workers from any country and replace you. For Americans, you guys have already seen the bullshit with H1B's replacing people already working at a job. What you'd start seeing what we have in Canada with TFW's, where people even in skilled trades being replaced. The leaked document that was post a year and change back showed that any type of agreement negotiated in secret needs to be nuked from orbit.
Om, nomnomnom...
How little the left remembers or cares about history.
I'm a Republican. But that doesn't prevent me from criticizing my Party when they do stupid things, like meet on Pres Obama's Inauguration Day and decide to Say No to everything he does or tries to do. That was verified by the Republican strategist who called that meeting. The Democrats, as bad as they were, did no such thing to Pres GW Bush. You should try to remember some history yourself.
There was never any difference between Democrats and Republicans
That is a dangerous misconception. There were always differences. In this case the anti-establishment wings of both parties have an odd coalition of sorts against these trade deals, while the establishment leaders are for it.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
This "one Canadian law professor" is Dr. Michael Geist, the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, a syndicated on technology law issues in major newspapers and a member of many boards, including the CANARIE Board of Directors, the CanLII Board of Directors, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's Expert Advisory Board, the EFF Advisory Board, as well as the founder of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic.
If you are a Canadian /. reader, I strongly recommend following his blog.
They did oppose many of Bush's programs, such as his continuing the Iraq War as long as he did
No they didn't. They signed off on it every time, then grumbled a bit about it to no effect.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
There was never a single country that *invaded* Russia that didn't regret it profoundly.
The Mongol Empire?
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There's a lot more to it than just the MPAA/RIAA's bullshit, which included everything from absurd criminal sentences for copyright infringement, to DRM circumvention banning, to expanding copyright terms yet again. There's also the pharmaceutical industry protectionism via patents and psuedopatents, the "investor state dispute settlements" aka corporate sovereignty, the worker importing and job outsourcing, the privatization of public services, the defanging of the GPL, the banning of publishing trade secrets, etc.
>Can't afford democratic plans anymore.
You don't have one. Obamacare was a republican plan, originally written by the heartland institute and first implemented in law by governor Mitt Romney. Why do you think the left was never happy with it. We only tolerated it as "better than nothing" we never thought it was "good" - it was Obama's 'reach across the aisle' move to do healthcare reform EXACTLY as republicans have always wanted to do it - and then suddenly they hated it.
America needs truly Universal Healthcare - along with price controls on pharmaceuticals. You want an actual democratic plan ? It means putting all the insurance companies out of business for ever.
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