As a warrior for Internet freedom, you helped defeat the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA by supporting Web blackouts by sites like Wikipedia and by contacting your lawmaker to voice your displeasure. So loud was your voice that even the president of the United States sided with you in opposing it.
But don't take a deep sigh of relief because, after all, we're talking about a merger of Washington, D.C., and Hollywood here, as well as global interests.
After the motion picture industry, its subsidiaries and all "interested parties" have spent nearly $150 million lobbying for some sort of Internet-centric "anti-piracy" bill, you should have known the powers that be would return.
And they have. Only this time they are pushing something far more onerous: ACTA, or the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.
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so you just go there and the're wierd science....
ReplyDeleteThey were unable to force SOPA through so now they are changing the name and hiding what the actual bill does for those consumers and internet users. Typical US government, find another way to get over on the people will you?
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