Tech | January 27, 2012 | 4 comments

ACTA = Global Internet Censorship - Now Even Foreign Governments Will Be Able To Have Your Website Shut Down

source: http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/acta-global-internet-censorship-now-even-foreign-g...

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Global Internet censorship is here. SOPA and PIPA have been stopped (at least for now) in the United States, but a treaty known as ACTA (the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is far worse than either of them. ACTA was quietly signed by Barack Obama back on October 1st, 2011 and most Americans have never even heard of it. But it could mean the end of the Internet as we know it. This new treaty gives foreign governments and copyright owners incredibly broad powers. If you are alleged to have violated a copyright, your website can be shut down without a trial and police may even show up at your door to take you to prison. It doesn't even have to be someone in the United States that is accusing you. It could just be a foreign government or a copyright owner halfway across the world that alleges that you have violated a copyright. It doesn't matter. So far, the U.S., the EU and seven other nations have signed on to ACTA, and the number of participants is expected to continue to grow. The "powers that be" are obsessed with getting Internet censorship one way or another. The open and free Internet that you and I have been enjoying for all these years is about to change, and not for the better.
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4 comments // ACTA = Global Internet Censorship - Now Even Foreign Governments Will Be Able To Have Your Website Shut Down // Video

  • CliffBurtonRip92786
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      CliffBurtonRip92786  

    • I'm sorry but they need to seriously think deeper into an issue before they dive into it completly ignorant about what is being proposed can do to peoples rights. So much for a free society, the government wants us to go the way of many of the other censorist countries so that they have control over everything.

    • 4 months ago
  • Leen61
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      Leen61  

    • It's a shame ACTA was signed. This is indeed the end of the internet as we know it. The false flag is the BS about copyright infringement. It's not about that. It's about stifling dissent and free speech. 1984 has arrived.

    • 4 months ago
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  • Dagum
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      Dagum  

    • No comments huh? I guess everyone is so informed and aware of ACTA, its mechanisms, and its impact that it is not worth discussing or commenting on.

    • 4 months ago
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