Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Months before the debate about Internet censorship raged as SOPA and PIPA dominated the concerns of web users, President Obama signed an international treaty that would allow companies in China or any other country in the world to demand ISPs remove web content in the US with no legal oversight whatsoever.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement was signed by Obama on October 1 2011, yet is currently the subject of a White House petition demanding Senators be forced to ratify the treaty. The White House has circumvented the necessity to have the treaty confirmed by lawmakers by presenting it an as “executive agreement,” although legal scholars have highlighted the dubious nature of this characterization.
The hacktivist group Anonymous attacked and took offline the Federal Trade Commission’s website yesterday in protest against the treaty, which was also the subject of demonstrations across major cities in Poland, a country set to sign the agreement today.
Under the provisions of ACTA, copyright holders will be granted sweeping direct powers to demand ISPs remove material from the Internet on a whim. Whereas ISPs normally are only forced to remove content after a court order, all legal oversight will be abolished, a precedent that will apply globally, rendering the treaty worse in its potential scope for abuse than SOPA or PIPA.
A country known for its enforcement of harsh Internet censorship policies like China could demand under the treaty that an ISP in the United States remove content or terminate a website on its server altogether. As we have seen from the enforcement of similar copyright policies in the US, websites are sometimes targeted for no justifiable reason.
The groups pushing the treaty also want to empower copyright holders with the ability to demand that users who violate intellectual property rights (with no legal process) have their Internet connections terminated, a punishment that could only ever be properly enforced by the creation of an individual Internet ID card for every web user, a system that is already in the works.
“The same industry rightsholder groups that support the creation of ACTA have also called for mandatory network-level filtering by Internet Service Providers and for Internet Service Providers to terminate citizens’ Internet connection on repeat allegation of copyright infringement (the “Three Strikes” /Graduated Response) so there is reason to believe that ACTA will seek to increase intermediary liability and require these things of Internet Service Providers,” reports the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
This is the most communistic peace of legislation to ever be introduced into a free society. Not only dose it undermine the vary laws that America was founded apon but it just go’s to prove all I and meany other Americans have been saying for the last 90 years. AS A CIVILIEN MILLITA MEMBER I AND A FREEDOM FIGHTER. I DO NOT RECIDNISE THIS LAW NOR WILL I UPHOLD IT BECAUSE OF THE ILLEAGL ASPECTS OF THE LAW I NOR YOU NEED NOR HAVE TO RECIDNISE THIS LAW NOR UPHOLD IT AND OR FOLLOW IT BECAUSE THIS LAW IS IN DIRECT VIOLASION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTSTUSHION. AND IS CONSIDERD NULL AND VOID.
Although I agree with a portion of what you are trying to say. Your point would be made much better if you learned how to use SPELL CHECK!
You can’t honestly expect people to care about what you have to say if you sound stupid saying it.
That being said. I absolutely agree that this treaty is the worst attack on our 1st amendment rights in the history of the internet. Let the rest of the world do what they want. I live in a fee country!
Give me a break–you honestly want to attack on spelling? Typical liberal tactics..
right!
typical liberal tactics? did you even bother to read where he said twice that he fully agreed?!? I agree as well and really wish they would have bothered to read it again before the posted as Im just positive I missed some things due to not understanding them.
I agree, it’s much easier to appear credible if you don’t sound illiterate..
You sure do live in a fee country. Might want to learn how to use spell check.
haaaaaaaaaaaaAAAA U REALLY THINK ITS FREE OR FEE AS U PUT IT WELL THINK AGAIN FOOL
I wholeheartedly agree…
Whether you are Republican or Democrat in this fight, we should all stand together against the usurping of our constitutional freedoms by a corporate government run amok.
Unfortunately, the only candidate standing up against such offenses (in earnest) is Ron Paul. I say unfortunately, because most Americans have already been led to believe by the Corporate-owned mainstream media that Ron Paul is ‘unelectable’ and doesn’t stand a chance at winning the presidential election of 2012…
I beg to differ. After doing my own research on Ron Paul and listening to what he has to say, he is the ONLY electable candidate in the field for President of the United States today. Moreover, all the other Republican candidates have been backed, bought-and-paid-for by the very corporate behemoths that not only caused our world economic demise, but they also received bailouts while We the People suffered (and continue to do so)!
Granted Ron Paul may not appeal to everyone, or stand for everything that you may believe in, but should we really throw the proverbial baby out with the bath water when considering all that he has to offer America?
yes, I finally started to listen Ron Paul, after I realised the ridiculousness of the others. First, I thought, anybody but Obama. Now, I think Paul or destruction.
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This is plain [Control-Freak] legislation aka Commie A_C_T
What’s more striking about this is what gets coverage. I had a feeling SOPA was a diversion…
ouch…
SOPA was bad.. PIPA was bad.. ( now ACTA Wow ) They just want make internet dead.
We’ve got to get this jackass out of office quickly!
Well, Judge Malihi of Georgia, despite the fact that obama no showed to his supoena, didn’t rule the default. After he ruled that obozo is eligible to be on the ballot (although he has a non-American father and therefore is not a natural born citizen, as defined by Supreme Court ruling in Minor vs. Haperset) some people inquired into this judge. Voila: no bio on any website – the only one missing bio, when it comes to Justices. However, he IS an Iranian muslim, and he did live in CT. Just another obozo’s firewall.
Gah…Obama, I worked on your campaign in hopes that you would be AGAINST this kind of bullshit. Great, just great. I’ll vote for you over Gingrich, but I am not volunteering on your campaign.
On the bright side, maybe this is the issue that an bring the left and the right together in this country. Neither side wants our right to associate the other party with Hitler via the web, to be taken away.
Vote for Ron Paul !
Ron Paul won’t win!!
Won’t win? According to whom? Just because the MSM says it doesn’t make it so. If everywhere you turn some sub par news outlet is saying that he is unelectable than that’s what the public perception wil be. Instead, try listening to what he has to say, get informed and take a stand against those who wish to destroy our great Country. Instead of ingesting what is being shoved down our throats, turn off the television and do some research.
It doesn’t matter how many people vote. What matters is who is counting the votes.
And how many “fake” votes are counted. Dead people, illegals, and people not registered voting as someone else. This system has been corrupted and cannot be trusted.
Sorry man, Obama is and has always been a liar. He’s a traitor to our Constitution. Better figure out where your loyalties lie, to America, or to this bastard communist traitor.
Bastard communist traitor? Really? That’s just classless.
Besides the guy isn’t a Qadafi or Baby doc Duvalier. Attack his politics not the person himself. And back up your statements with quotes and links to political articles, don’t just make random insults.
No, as long as you’d rather vote for a man who would dole out this kind of garbage over someone simply because you hate him instead of his record, how could anybody align with you on anything?? I’m not a fan of Gingrich either, but he WOULD NEVER ALLOW something like this to happen, much less sign it. You need to get your priorities straight, quit listening to the group think and start looking at voting records of candidates. Start considering how a person would lead if elected instead of how pretty of a fairy tale they can blow up your arse..
If you had the LAST TIME, you would have known Obama was fully capable of this. I did. So you have some blame in this for helping getting the douchebag elected.
No. Do not tell me I need to ‘get me priorities straight’. I am fully aware of what my priorities are, please do not assume that because I disagree with you that it means I don’t know what I’m talking about.
Also, I was about fifteen during the last election, and yes, I looked at his voting record then.
Lastly, Gingrish might not let something like this happen (I’ve been following Romney more closely as he looks like the winner) but I sure as hell don’t want a moon colony or a racist for president.
You would vote for Obama over Gingrich? Are you crazy or just stupid? The problem with liberals is they neve learn from their mistakes.
Crazy or stupid?
Can you please refrain from personal attacks? My opinion isn’t that the world is flat. It’s just a political opinion.
Also, I’m not a liberal. I’m a moderate. And yeah, I’m not voting for Gingrich because I don’t want a Lunar colony or a ego-maniacal racist for president.
Stop assuming things. It’s obnoxious. Try asking questions.
As the article states, ACTA isn’t SOPA version 2.0. This whole time it was SOPA acting as the distraction. Hell, two summers ago I attended a local public meeting for which the agenda was snowing people into accepting ACTA as “the future.”
During the “Look at me I’m so brave getting out there to protest SOPA” theatrics I was asking “Have you forgotten already about ACTA?” That, of course, was precisely what the NWO wanted.
Nationalism is a filthy crime against humanity, but internationalism is much worse. Decentralize.
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