You might not have heard of ACTA. You’ve probably heard of SOPA though – you know those bills that threatened our freedom, but that we all managed to get overthrown before they could be passed?
ACTA’s a bit different. By which I mean, it’s already been passed in the US, Australia, Canada, Japan, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea.
ACTA’s more restrictive, less transparent and more global. Essentially, it’s SOPA to the power of 10. Welcome to our Orwellian Future.
This entry was posted on Saturday, January 28th, 2012 at 11:28 am and tagged with ACTA, SOPA, Stop ACTA and posted in Complaints. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
ACTA will make internet service providers lawfully chargeable for all kinds of things their customers do on-line. It’s a really dangerous piece of legislation not only to web freedom but additionally to our day-to-day liberties. We will need to prevent it.
ACTA or SOPA are about international web censorship, chinese style. Simply enter SOPA into Yahoo and google and inform yourself about this and fight it. All of us will be stricken desperately by it.
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February 5th, 2012 at 8:10 am
ACTA will make internet service providers lawfully chargeable for all kinds of things their customers do on-line. It’s a really dangerous piece of legislation not only to web freedom but additionally to our day-to-day liberties. We will need to prevent it.
February 11th, 2012 at 11:21 pm
ACTA or SOPA are about international web censorship, chinese style. Simply enter SOPA into Yahoo and google and inform yourself about this and fight it. All of us will be stricken desperately by it.