Trans Pacific Treaty Tyranny

When the Time Comes We’ll Need to Step Up the Fight Against TPP’s Secret, Anti-User Agenda, Posted on November 23, 2014 Written by eff.org

If you missed our live teach-in yes­ter­day on the Trans-Pacific Part­ner­ship (TPP) agree­ment and its restric­tive, anti-user pro­vi­sions, you can still check out the video of our dis­cus­sion. It’s embed­ded below. We invited experts from dig­i­tal rights groups from sev­eral TPP countries—all mem­bers of the Fair Deal Coali­tion—and we dis­cussed the var­i­ous ways this mas­sive, secret trade deal threat­ens our rights on the Inter­net and over our dig­i­tal devices.

A recent leak of the TPP’s Intel­lec­tual Prop­erty chap­ter con­firmed that the pro­vi­sions on anti-circumvention, copy­right terms, ISP lia­bil­ity, and crim­i­nal enforce­ment has fur­ther dete­ri­o­rated. But it also revealed new, dan­ger­ously vague text on the mis­use of trade secrets which could be used to enact harsh crim­i­nal pun­ish­ments against any­one who reveals or even accesses infor­ma­tion through a “com­puter sys­tem” that is allegedly con­fi­den­tial. This lan­guage could have alarm­ing con­se­quences if nations are oblig­ated to enact new laws that could be used to crack down on jour­nal­ists and whis­tle blowers.

We held this teach-in because things are mov­ing fast now. Pres­i­dent Obama and the US Trade Rep­re­sen­ta­tive are deter­mined to con­clude this agree­ment, orga­niz­ing dozens of meet­ings with TPP del­e­gates to resolve some of the long­stand­ing dis­agree­ments in the text. On the US front, Con­gress is likely to intro­duce another Fast Track bill in Jan­u­ary that would tie these rep­re­sen­ta­tives’ own hands from debat­ing or mod­i­fy­ing the terms of this agree­ment after the White House has secre­tively nego­ti­ated it for years.

When the time comes, we’ll need to step up the fight against this agree­ment on a coor­di­nated, global front. So watch this video, share it, and con­tinue to spread the world about this secret, Hollywood-driven agenda to chip away at our dig­i­tal rights

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  Filed Under: Agenda 21, New World Order, Technocracy, Trade
  Source:http://agenda21news.com/2014/11/time-comes-well-need-step-fight-tpps-secret-anti-user-agenda/#more-3863