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ACTA - Worldwide Sopa?

Greedo

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I was surprised not to find a thread about this on the forums.

While SOPA seems to be beaten to death, ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
is apparently very alive.


Critics argue ACTA is even worse than SOPA in that it is an international treaty, and is held and negotiated under secrecy. The US and several other countries including Canada, Australia and Japan have already signed; the EU is planning to do so in the future.

Opinions?
 
I was looking forward to this as well. I wrote a post and I was going to post two URLs, but the forum didn't allow me because of the URLs and when I clicked back, my post was gone. Anyway, I was saying that so far it seems that the public opinion is wrong and I posted the URLs to support that - the first URL was a Youtube link for ACTA supporters that looked like it was designed to make people believe in its unsupported claims (some of which seemed wrong), using intuition rather than thinking (biases exist only because of intuition - many of their arguments were provoking various biases), and it contradicted the second URL. The second URL was from the EU or something like that, it refused all those claims, and it provided a few links to the actual documents.
 
ACTA isn't SOPA. Much of the problem is that people are still focused on provisions that were seen in early leaked drafts but were removed in the final version that has been signed by the US and others.

Here is an article on common misinformation you'll find online pushed by anti-ACTA sources. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/internet-awash-in-inaccurate-anti-acta-arguments.ars

There is a lot to dislike about ACTA and I'd like to see it die a horrible death, but being misinformed doesn't help.
 
Blackened said:
I was looking forward to this as well. I wrote a post and I was going to post two URLs, but the forum didn't allow me because of the URLs and when I clicked back, my post was gone.
Click to expand...

You can't post links until you have made 15 posts. Prior to that just trim the http://www. off the link and it will appear as a non-clickable url we can cut and paste
 
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