Hi all, Some new TPP-related news hit my inbox today, from the guys running the http://StopTheSecrecy.net website.
From the e-mail: ---- President Obama is holding secret meetings in Asia to ram through the TPP's Internet censorship plan, which would force ISPs to monitor our Internet use, censor content, and remove entire websites. To fight back we need your help to project an attention-grabbing message on key buildings in Washington D.C. Tell decision-makers to stop the secretive TPP now so we can deliver the message before it's too late. Here's the situation: Obama himself is in secretive meetings with key political figures and lobbyists in Asia to lock the Trans-Pacific Partnership's Internet censorship plan into place. We know from leaked documents that this secretive plan will censor your use of the Internet and strip away your rights.[1] If finalized, this plan would force ISPs to act as "Internet Police" monitoring our Internet use, censoring content, and removing whole websites.[2] It will give media conglomerates centralized control over what you can watch and share online. This is huge: covering 40% of the global economy, the TPP is being called a legal "blueprint" for the rest of the world.[3] Once key leaders finalize TPP Internet censorship plans today it will be used to globalize censorship across the world. You will be affected and this may be our only chance to stop it. *Footnotes* [1] "Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)." Source: WikiLeaks [ https://wikileaks.org/tpp ]. [2] TPP Creates Legal Incentives For ISPs To Police The Internet. What Is At Risk? Your Rights. Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation [ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/tpp-creates-liabilities-isps-and-put-your-rights-risk ] [3] U.S. "Bullying" TPP Negotiators Amid Failure to Agree. Source: Inter Press Service News Agency [ http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/12/u-s-bullying-tpp-negotiators-amid-failure-agree ]. *Note: The U.S. and the E.U. are already discussing a similar secretive agreement called "Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)". Once the TPP is finalized there will be pressure to harmonize and extend its provisions to TTIP -- meaning the E.U. There are also reports of several others countries being added to the TPP once it is finalized. ---- If this campaign is something you might be interested in, I would urge you to head on over to http://StopTheSecrecy.net as soon as you can, and make your opinion known by signing up. Cheers, Adam
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