Peace Piper
11-23-2014, 06:22 AM
When the Time Comes We'll Need to Step Up the Fight Against TPP's Secret, Anti-User Agenda
Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation)
November 20, 2014 | By Maira Sutton
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If you missed our live teach-in yesterday on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) (https://www.eff.org/issues/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 (https://act.eff.org/action/don-t-let-congress-fast-track-tpp) 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..SNIP
Full Article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/when-time-comes-we-need-be-ready-fight-tpps-secret-anti-user-agenda
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation was formed in July 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor in response to a series of actions by law enforcement agencies that led them to conclude that the authorities were gravely uninformed about emerging forms of online communication, and that there was a need for increased protection for Internet civil liberties...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation
Fight Secret Copyright Deals: A Global TPP Teach-In
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YifI1tn1aJI
Streamed live on Nov 19, 2014
A lot has happened on the Trans-Pacific Partnership front these past couple months. There was another major leak of a recent draft of the TPP’s Intellectual Property chapter that confirmed that many of the most extreme copyright provisions are still there, and in some cases, have even gotten worse. It also showed that it included some new harmful language on “trade secrets” that could be used to crack down on journalists.
The TPP could be finalized in the coming months, and things are moving fast. That’s why we’d like to invite you to a public, online teach-in to hear representatives from several digital rights groups based in TPP countries share their analysis of the latest leaked text, as well as to lay out the current state of play of the negotiations. We’ll make sure there’s time at the end for users to ask us questions.
When the time comes, we’ll need to be ready to fight this agreement on a global front. So please join us and get informed about the TPP's threats to digital rights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YifI1tn1aJI
The Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty is the complete opposite of 'free trade'
Mark Weisbrot The Guardian 19 November 2013
The TPP would strip our constitutional rights, while offering no gains for the majority of Americans. It's a win for corporations
The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement among 12 governments, touted as one of the largest "free trade" agreements in US history, is running into difficulties as the public learns more about it. Last week 151 Democrats and 23 Republicans (pdf) in the House of Representatives signed letters to the US chief negotiators expressing opposition to a "fast track" procedure for voting on the proposed agreement. This procedure would limit the congressional role and debate over an agreement already negotiated and signed by the executive branch, which the Congress would have to vote up or down without amendments...
MORE: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/19/trans-pacific-partnership-corporate-usurp-congress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ykrZECOsGs
Secretary Clinton Comments on the Transpacific System
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks on "America's Pacific Century" at APEC Leaders Week in Honolulu, Hawaii on November 11, 2011. (Go to http://video.state.gov for more video and text transcript.)
Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation)
November 20, 2014 | By Maira Sutton
http://i.imgur.com/JgVumIL.jpg
If you missed our live teach-in yesterday on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) (https://www.eff.org/issues/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 (https://act.eff.org/action/don-t-let-congress-fast-track-tpp) 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..SNIP
Full Article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/when-time-comes-we-need-be-ready-fight-tpps-secret-anti-user-agenda
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation was formed in July 1990 by John Gilmore, John Perry Barlow and Mitch Kapor in response to a series of actions by law enforcement agencies that led them to conclude that the authorities were gravely uninformed about emerging forms of online communication, and that there was a need for increased protection for Internet civil liberties...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation_20th_anniversary_me cha_poster.jpg/220px-Electronic_Frontier_Foundation_20th_anniversary_me cha_poster.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation
Fight Secret Copyright Deals: A Global TPP Teach-In
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YifI1tn1aJI
Streamed live on Nov 19, 2014
A lot has happened on the Trans-Pacific Partnership front these past couple months. There was another major leak of a recent draft of the TPP’s Intellectual Property chapter that confirmed that many of the most extreme copyright provisions are still there, and in some cases, have even gotten worse. It also showed that it included some new harmful language on “trade secrets” that could be used to crack down on journalists.
The TPP could be finalized in the coming months, and things are moving fast. That’s why we’d like to invite you to a public, online teach-in to hear representatives from several digital rights groups based in TPP countries share their analysis of the latest leaked text, as well as to lay out the current state of play of the negotiations. We’ll make sure there’s time at the end for users to ask us questions.
When the time comes, we’ll need to be ready to fight this agreement on a global front. So please join us and get informed about the TPP's threats to digital rights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YifI1tn1aJI
The Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty is the complete opposite of 'free trade'
Mark Weisbrot The Guardian 19 November 2013
The TPP would strip our constitutional rights, while offering no gains for the majority of Americans. It's a win for corporations
The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement among 12 governments, touted as one of the largest "free trade" agreements in US history, is running into difficulties as the public learns more about it. Last week 151 Democrats and 23 Republicans (pdf) in the House of Representatives signed letters to the US chief negotiators expressing opposition to a "fast track" procedure for voting on the proposed agreement. This procedure would limit the congressional role and debate over an agreement already negotiated and signed by the executive branch, which the Congress would have to vote up or down without amendments...
MORE: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/19/trans-pacific-partnership-corporate-usurp-congress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ykrZECOsGs
Secretary Clinton Comments on the Transpacific System
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks on "America's Pacific Century" at APEC Leaders Week in Honolulu, Hawaii on November 11, 2011. (Go to http://video.state.gov for more video and text transcript.)