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“If You Like Your Freedom of Speech, You Can Keep Your Freedom of Speech.”

Friday, October 9, 2015 10:00
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Can anyone explain to me how the TransPacific Partnership (an agreement that covers 40 per cent of the world’s economy, and sets huge new rules for online businesses) is STILL getting virtually ZERO attention from Americans? Earth to America: The Constitution is being usurped once again, and if nothing is done FAST, we’re going to find ourselves helpless to stop the coming oppression. Can you IMAGINE a United States where Internet Service Providers POLICE YOUR INTERNET USAGE and anyone who reveals corporate wrongdoing on a “computerized system” (AKA the Internet), will have their content REMOVED immediately? NEWS FLASH: You won’t have to imagine it, because the TPP does just that. 

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Many with knowledge of the TPP have called it the “biggest global threat to the internet” because of the massive list of new restrictions it will place on what people can do with their computers. Keep in mind whatever freedom of speech the TPP doesn’t eviscerate, “Net Neutrality” is there to mop right behind it, and these are passed legislation. The only thing missing is full IMPLEMENTATION! Let me try to explain that in the easiest way possible:

Imagine if legislation had been passed making it illegal to wear Red, Blue, Black, Orange, or Green. The colors represent all the illegal and unconstitutional laws put in place by Obama and the rest of Crime Inc. Now imagine that law enforcement agencies were still in the process of updating their operating procedures for how to handle the arrest and prosecution of anyone who gets caught wearing any of those colors. That is essentially what is going on with Obamacare (which conveniently will go into full effect right after Obama leaves office), the EPA, the TPP, “Net Neutrality,” illegal amnesty, and countless other Obama dictates. Back to the color example, not IF, but WHEN all those operating procedures are finalized, and they all go into effect, it will feel like a baseball upside the head to anyone accustomed to living in a free country. 

The following video explains how the TPP provides legal incentives for ISP’s (Verizon, Comcast,etc.), and content providers (Google, Youtube, Facebook, etc.) to police their customers, enforce copyright infringement internet service and content providers to police copyright infringement, even cut services to their customers. WHY IS NO ONE PAYING ATTENTION?

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THE FIRING SQUAD HAS THE BILL OF RIGHTS DEAD IN ITS SIGHT…

AND WE THE PEOPLE ARE AREN’T EVEN PAYING ATTENTION!

 

Michael Krieger writes:

On Monday, we learned that global “leaders” had come to an agreement on the infamous Trans Pacific Partnership, or TPP. While discouraging, this doesn’t mean the game is over — far from it.

Although politicians have come to a secret agreement, this democracy killing, corporate monstrosity still has to pass the U.S. Congress. So it’s now up to all of us to create an insurmountable degree of opposition and make sure this thing is dead on arrival.

The more I learn about the TPP, the more horrified I become. In case you need to get up to speed, check out the following:

U.S. State Department Upgrades Serial Human Rights Abuser Malaysia to Include it in the TPP

Julian Assange on the TPP – “Deal Isn’t About Trade, It’s About Corporate Control”

Trade Expert and TPP Whistleblower – “We Should Be Very Concerned about What’s Hidden in This Trade Deal”

As the Senate Prepares to Vote on “Fast Track,” Here’s a Quick Primer on the Dangers of the TPP

If that wasn’t enough to concern you, here’s the latest revelation.

From Common Dreams:

The “disastrous” pro-corporate trade deal finalized Monday could kill the Internet as we know it, campaigners are warning, as they vow to keep up the fight against the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement between the U.S. and 11 Pacific Rim nations.

“Internet users around the world should be very concerned about this ultra-secret pact,” said OpenMedia’s digital rights specialist Meghan Sali. “What we’re talking about here is global Internet censorship. It will criminalize our online activities, censor the Web, and cost everyday users money. This deal would never pass with the whole world watching—that’s why they’ve negotiated it in total secrecy.”

If that part isn’t obvious by now, I don’t know what is.

TPP opponents have claimed that under the agreement, “Internet Service Providers could be required to ‘police’ user activity (i.e. police YOU), take down Internet content, and cut people off from Internet access for common user-generated content.”

Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) Maira Sutton wrote on Monday, “We have no reason to believe that the TPP has improved much at all from the last leaked version released in August, and we won’t know until the U.S. Trade Representative releases the text. So as long as it contains a retroactive 20-year copyright term extensionbans on circumventing DRMmassively disproportionate punishments for copyright infringement, and rules that criminalize investigative journalists and whistleblowers, we have to do everything we can to stop this agreement from getting signed, ratified, and put into force.”

Furthermore, “The fact that close to 800 million Internet users’ rights to free expression, privacy, and access to knowledge online hinged upon the outcome of squabbles over trade rules on cars and milk is precisely why digital policy consideration[s] do not belong in trade agreements,” Sutton added, referring to the auto and dairy tariff provisions that reportedly held up the talks.

“Successive leaks of the TPP have demonstrated that unless you are a big business sector, the [U.S. Trade Representative, or USTR] simply doesn’t care what you have to say,” wrote EFF’s Jeremy Malcolm.

“If you like your freedom of speech, you can keep your freedom of speech.”

Brace yourselves for Obamatrade.

In Liberty,

Michael Krieger

 

FOR RELATED ARTICLES SEE:

What Makes The Trans-Pacific Partnership So Bad? You Better Sit Down

The TPP Has a Secret Clause to Limit Free Speech Online – Shocked?

Net Neutrality: What it REALLY Means, and How it Could REALLY Impact You 

Disastrous “Net Neutrality” Rules Begin Now (Video)

Secretive TPP Trade Bill Leads to You Surrendering Your Sovereign Rights to Foreign Interests

Trans-Pacific Partnership Issues That Could Hurt You If You’re Not Aware

 

 

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