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How The TPP Could Lead To Worldwide Internet Censorship
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
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”
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 extension, bans on circumventing DRM, massively 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.
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TPP and TTIP is good for multi-national corporations and governments, not much else. That's why it's been purposely kept from public discourse.
Obviously you're just a filthy Mickey Mouse hater. Where is your love of all media things created since the 1950s? Can't you jam this beyond-trite content down your gullet one more time and pay your dolphin-saving corporate masters for doing so?
/s
The Mickey Mouse copyright law of 1998 (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) extended protection from 50 to 75 years making it impossible to resource anything after 1923. Nothing new has gone into the public domain since then and won't until 2023. And now they want another 20 year extension to 2043?
Dracula, Frankenstein and a whole lot of other cool stuff should have been set free by now. The copyright office supposedly has a dual purpose the first of which is to make sure that the public has free access to information. Protection of the author (or corporate purchaser) was always meant to be secondary.
The whole copy-left thing will blast off if the TPP takes hold. Instead of allowing them to control sites based ont eh legitamacy of the ownership of the content, they will be watching free-lance artists creating new content to avoid the issue entirely.
It's like these morons don't actually understand how humans think and behave.
If piracy were the target, then copyrights wouldn't be the target.
In a way I agree. I think such obscene restrictions on sharing will simply push the dedicated content creators into the public domain. But remember, the goal of TPP has nothing to do with content creators, it's to protect corporate monstrosities with pieces-of-paper-ownership of content. It has much more to do with control than with content creation.
media guys, THEY are to blame, what were they told that got them to cooperate all these years? was it just money? Because they will NOT get a heads up when danger comes their way despite all their slavish lying to support the tyranny.
Really, the elites must think other elites rule the after life. Media guys complaining of the tyranny should look at the media lies and tell us WHY do they cooperate.
They fear the internet exposing all of their false flag bullshit! They will never shut teh we up, NEVER!
Any entity referring to itself as 'teh we' has got to be a fool of the highest order.
You should just go back to playing with your Barbie Dolls and leave the other posters alone.
Is this an official endorsement of fonestardation?
The funny thing about that. The internet doesn't follow trends in corporate identity. They can push this all they want, because it will only change what is popular on the internet and reduce the amount of corporate influence on the minds.
Basically this is the corporations over-reaching, and while it may get a few people fined or put in prison, it will not do anything other than encourage all people to stop participating in the markets controlled by the corporations. This is another classic Jew over-reach problem. This is an example of why the Jews keep getting expelled from society, because they like to try and pull this crap which always backfires on them.
I say this as person that has been around for all of the copyright fights that surrounded the torrent scene. Torrents are still as popular as ever, but the are essentially illegal everywhere.
TPP is a final death knell to the Jewish media machine. Even if it passes, it will only push whites out of their sphere of control. All they will have left will be the few remaining Evangelicals that are too stupid to see what is going on and the Black puppets of the music industry.
Again, good points.
I expect that P2P technology, as well as blockchain technology will make centralized control of any content a thing of the past. Why do I need facebook when I can simply post my updates to a P2P stream that is mirrored everywhere and locked under key that I only share with friends?
At some point the only option that elites will have is literally actively jamming all wifi frequencies, but this is entirely self-destructive to them as well.
Well, your comment is a logical one and sure makes me feel better about hoping for having TSHTF sooner rather than later. Bring on the TPP then if it will end the enslavement!
Nothing like the fresh smell of corporate fascism to wake you up in the morning.
Nothing like the elites doing everything they can to screw us and silence us.
Obama is a big supporter of the TPP and other New World Order programs to turn people into peasants. Anyone who causes the NWO problems can expect problems. As Spencer Stone found out, almost stabbed to death this morning. If not for Stone's heroics, we would have had three mass shootings in a little over four months, not two. Expect the FBI and police to find no conspiracy in the attempted murder of Stone today.
Two and one half hours ago, in a posting here, I wrote the following, before seeing the Drudge link:
"Stone was the key person in preventing a mass slaughter of passengers. Obama and his NOW compatriots don’t like Stone at all."
Fast action on the part of Obama's accomplices. Time to impeach Obama.
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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — CBS News has learned that France train hero Spencer Stone was stabbed early Thursday morning.
According to the Pentagon, who has confirmed Stone was injured, Spencer is in stable condition.
“A1C Spencer Stone has been transported to a local hospital, and is currently being treated for injury. The incident is currently under investigation by local law enforcement. He is currently in stable condition,” a statement from the U.S. Air Force reads.
According to CBS News, Stone was stabbed repeatedly. The incident happened outside of a bar at 21st and K Streets, CBS News reports. Stone reportedly suffered a wound to the heart and his left lung.
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2015/10/08/cbs-news-france-train-hero-spe...
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These events in Syria show that Obama really is a Manchurian Candidate who, with his dimwit NATO accomplices, thinks anyone will believe his lies that the U.S. Air Force is doing anything more than dropping bombs on the empty desert in Syria. To promote Obama’s campaign of terrorism at home, we have three shooting incidents in three and one half months by 20 something demented guys: Dylann Roof gunning down people in a Charleston church in July 2015; Ayoub el-Khazzani attempt to gun down passengers on a high speed train in France in August 2015 and now, this month, Christopher Harper-Mercer killing people in an Oregon college. Just as Obama uses proxy killers in the Middle East to carry out a reign of terror, he is using “lone wolf” madmen elsewhere to push the New World Order program to terrorize people to give up their civil rights.
The Oregon shooter turns out to be an Army enlistee drummed out of the service after he attempted suicide. A perfect candidate for brainwashing, just like Roof and el-Khazzani. If I am connecting the dots correctly, Obama’s organ grinders will continue recruiting psychopaths for attacks on soft targets at home and abroad. You notice that France gave the passengers who took down el-Khazzani the Legion of Honor while Obama failed to even award Airman Spencer Stone the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions on that train as soldier and medic. Stone was the key person in preventing a mass slaughter of passengers. Obama and his NOW compatriots don’t like Stone at all.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-08/assad-launches-major-offensive-...
Excellent post, I would give you 1000 upvotes if I could.
No doubt that Obama is an enemy of free people and that he is complicit in the murderous atrocities you list.
But, Spencer Stone was stabbed at approximately 01:00 outside of a bar in Sacramento. Not exactly an unusual event at a bar at that time of day.
That may be true. But for me, as regards the TPP, if Obama is promoting it, there MUST be some really bad shit in it, maybe what the EFF points out, maybe other stuff as well. If Obama is for it, that is enough for me to be against it.
We need whistleblowers. They are our immunesystem.
No whistleblowers = No evolution.
This "Agreement" reminds me the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pack that led to the WWII.
It was an agreement between two bloody dictators Hitler and Stalin. The agreement has started the global WWII. Now, Obama behaves like Adolf Hitler.
Either Obama=Hitler will be stopped now before it is not too late or WWIII becomes inevitable.
Public is too busy watching The Voice or Kardashians. .gov could have published the whole list and nobody would react. As long as it does interfere with cable tv, .gov is fine
Skynet will control your speech. Byebye ZH.
How it "COULD" lead to censorship? Why be a pussy? This WILL lead to censorship. It's one their damn goals.
buh bye second enlightenment, we hardly knew ye.
But, but, but BITCOIN!!!!!!
Note how Kim Dotcom and other dark lords are in federal custody and Mt.Goy went BK....The US has acres of supercomputers to decode stuff, electronic and otherwise, plus humans who have other skills.
New World Order doesn't tolerate backtalk.
Sounds about right for the next effort to rachet up tyranny in the US of A. We'll all get our shot at justice. If they destroy the internet as we know it, another will form. Aint skeered.
As far as the entire elite Harvard Soviet power base is concerned, the internet was never intended as a medium of free speech, unless you are a corporation, then you can have unlimited free speech. Exhibit A: Cass Schmuckstein
They hate the idea that fringe low brows such as ourselves are suddenly able to expressourselves through a conduit that enables large scale communication. As far as they are concerned, the sooner we are shut down the better.
There's a war on for our minds... and always has been.
"The only thing new under the sun is the history we don't know." -- Harry Truman
Love that quote, I use it often
Can't have the serfs armed and talking to each other. That makes successful rebellions possible.
The web was an accident and a side effect that they didn't expect, but not to worry, they are 'fixing' that minor oversight....
TPTB like cities.
Cities are easier to rule. Less geographic space, and the power is held in fewer hands per capita.
That is also why they are screwed if they go to far...and they very nearly have.
Cities burn nicely.
And it is relatively easy to blockade the rats inside.
@ZH...
Change "could" to "will"...
Damn if this happens where am I going to get my online pussy..no more backpage....fml
The candy will keep flowing. It keeps people busy with "distractions".
phew! almost panicked there ! :)
Congress is nothing but a pack of sell out traitors.
Every one of them should be hung, one by one.
Congress as a whole hasn't done much on this yet, this is Obama's and select congresspeople's doing. It has yet to pass before the representatives for any kind of debate/vote.
They could have a new reality TV show called The Traitor and Traitorette.
Whoever has taken a bribe at the Bribe Ceremony, will be next to be publicly executed on live TV...
"Find out how cheap and easy your elected officials are on the next episode of The Traitor."
Whenever someone takes it upon themselves to harm a politician, they'll be branded criminals and insane. Victims will be made into heroes. Case in point - Gabrielle Giffords, left nearly braindead by an attacker who shot her in the head point blank. That's the official version, though anyone familiar with her pro-war and pro-bailout voting record would be pressed to say she wasn't braindead to begin with.
Government can only sell us down the river so many times before their word is not worth a pinch of coonshit. NAFTA ripped me off until I destroyed it outright. TPP will not replace NAFTA due to the fact that trade is decreasing in every nation in the world. Face it, the Oligarchs have lost their power to moi, and I am not about to give it back.
If PTT was started by a few small countries (Brunei, Singapore, Chile), to protect themselves economically against giants like China, when and how did the US of A (of all countries) get into this group?
Seems that the whole thing has morphed from a healthy cell into a cancer cell: Given the current list of TPP members has two economic giants (Japan and USA), all other economies are much, much smaller. Interesting turn of geopolitical events.
BTW, given TPP's combined population of ~ 800 million and a GDP of ~ $28 Trillion, what currency will be used to price and settle international trade? The USD? If so, then so much for China dethroning King Dollar. Clearly China and its Oligarchs had no intention of backing their currency with gold -- not when so much of it was bought by the PBOC and is now moving into "Private Hands".
Between this, mandatory vaccines and firearms confiscation/control, TPTB are in a desperate full-court press mode. Blow it now, and they won't get another chance.
And they are coming for our infants next. The Ministry Of Sleep has launched a full on attack on "SIDS" and American citizens are the target. Those who don't comply with the new directives will be shamed on GoyimBook.
http://www.lex18.com/story/30205593/photo-sparks-conversation-about-co-sleeping-safety-sids
"SIDS" was invented after the massive increase to the vaccine schedule in the 80s had babies up and dying for "no reason".
Time to move to the darknet.
Das rayciss. +1 anyway.
GM recalls SUVs, tells owners not to use windshield wipers
Oops!!! I linked to a news article from an internet news outlet...DAT's ILLEGAL! Or it will be soon.
Facebook Law for Idiots: "copy and paste, do not share"
Should read, 'If you like your freedom of speech, you can keep your freedom of speech... to yourself"
Forget the founders. Change the Jefferson Memorial to the Mao Memorial. It's the only honest thing to do. The Chicoms are our model now. All that's stopping The Asian Century from becoming official is the U.S. Congress. Good luck with that...
not COULD, WILL!
Embrace your UN agenda 2030 overlords.
Resistance to the sovereignty eviscerating TPP is a place where 'Libertarian' meets 'Progressive' (and for once the hardhat doesn't feel like shooting the dirty bongo-banger)
TPP: the inadvertent consensus builder.
If you all are counting on congress standing up for the American people, you better get ready for dissapointment. Those men are owned by the same globalist bankers as the corporate lobbyists who wrote it.
Gee, "Freedum" is just breaking out all over the place...isn't it?
Or how the TPP will lead eventually to anonymity, privacy and the use of encryption and layered networks finally to be taken seriously.
Not to mention the Ham transceivers.
FCC has ruled you can't use encryption on ham radio transmissions-because the airways are public....though preppers may imagine lurking in wait to not obey this particular law...
Supposedly the NSA looks at anything its supercomputer can't crack in 1/2 a second, so ou-yay eed-nay ood-gay ans-play if you think "differently".
The Feds are very serious about illegal radio stations, they've busted mobile rogue AM stations, "back in the day". Hams are pretty conservative, typically, and they don't want any more hassle with regulations or regulators than they already have to deal with so they "police" the airwaves themselves.
So if your vu meter shows something, say something.
They don't want you to think too much...
~Jordan Maxwell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU9L8GEg4_g
The truth is like the plague.
You can fight it, but it always comes back.
"You can kill a man, but you can't kill and idea." Edgar Mevers
I think it is a plot by the goverment to get people off their computers and back into the national parks.
hahaha! So out of their houses and into gov't camps?
Only there won't be any 'national' parks anymore once the inscrutable, unelected, unaccountable, opaque, privately owned and operated offshore 'tribunals' locate the salable resources there and subsequently supercede any business-contrary legislation protecting them.
All your governments are belong to us!
TPP: Truth Penalised & Prohibited
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/245880-whoops-we-forgot-to-include-the-vat-in-the-tpp
June 24, 2015, 10:00 am
Whoops! We forgot to include the VAT in the TPP
According to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has a big benefit: With a signed TPP, American-made goods will finally enjoy tariff-free access to consumers in countries like Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore. However, some tariffs will not be dropped immediately, but instead will be phased out over a number of years.
Nevertheless, from a purely sales perspective, it’s a smart pitch, and one that’s designed to appeal to Americans’ sense of fair play. It’s a theme picked up by almost every Republican House fast-track (TPA) and TPP backer, as well as the few Democrat backers. Currently, the United States imposes no tariffs on roughly 80 percent of goods from TPP countries. And yet, U.S. exports often run into a brick wall when trying to reach overseas customers. For example, Vietnam slaps 70 percent tariffs on U.S. cars, Malaysia tacks a 50 percent duty on U.S. motorcycles, and Japan adds 189 percent on U.S. shoes.
President Obama has seized on this tariff disparity as a key selling point for the TPA/TPP. Unfortunately, his breezy sales patter studiously avoids serious fundamental barriers facing American exports in global trade. These barriers led to the failure of the president’s ‘Initiative to Double Exports in Five Years, 2009-2014,’ which only achieved roughly 50 percent of its goal, and demonstrated convincingly that rhetoric and appeals to foreign consumers don't equal export growth.
It should be evident that America’s trading partner governments are not particularly keen to receive more U.S. goods and services, but are mainly interested in exporting their wares to the lucrative U.S. market. Additionally, most of the “95 percent of consumers living outside the United States,” especially in countries like Malaysia, Vietnam and other ‘fast growing’ Asian markets, aren’t consumers in any sense that Americans would understand. 80 percent of the world’s population lives on less than $10 a day, meaning that American-made cars, motorcycles, and shoes are luxury items far beyond their reach, tariffs or not.
Most significantly, the TPP does not address a massive cost to U.S. goods and services that has a chokehold on our export levels: foreign Value-Added Tax (VAT) schemes.
The United States is one of only a handful of nations worldwide that does not charge a VAT on incoming manufactures and services. But 10 of the 11 TPP member states do, which means that, even with tariff-free access, high barriers remain: U.S. exporters will still face a 19 percent surcharge in Chile, 15 percent in Peru, and 16 percent in Mexico — countries with which we already have free trade agreements — or 15 percent in New Zealand and 8 percent in Japan. Only tiny Brunei, population 425,000, lacks a VAT.
The double whammy of a country’s VAT tax is that it not only jacks up the cost of American goods and services entering that foreign market, but also it rebates the amount of the VAT to the country’s exports, making them more competitive against their American counterparts. Add the effect of a VAT to that of currency manipulation and it’s no wonder that the United States has been running massive trade deficits all these years.
The Obama administration and the Congress have failed to consider the VAT barrier in the TPA and in the underlying TPP. For decades, Congress and U.S. negotiators tried to tackle the VAT issue in trade talks, but unsuccessfully. The result: every time a trade agreement reduced tariffs it was undercut by our trading partners’ raising their VATs to compensate for tariff cuts. Unlike with currency manipulation, the administration doesn’t even have a ‘quiet diplomacy’ approach to address VAT inequality. That’s one big reason why the TPP is projected to grow the U.S. economy by a measly 0.4 percent by 2025.
The Froman-Obama-Republican hype on tariff reduction is a sales job that Congress shouldn’t buy. Congress must reject TPA until it addresses the massive market-distorting effects of foreign Value Added Taxes, one of the biggest obstacles facing American exporters in 21st century trade.
Kearns is president of the U.S. Business & Industry Council (USBIC), a national business organization advocating for domestic U.S. manufacturers since 1933.
The more they clamp down the harder it becomes to deny the actions.
Now unless you intend to kill all communications what you will find is deep encryption so that only those permitted can view the content and that includes ISP's. TBH best not try, leaves it in the open then at least they can read it.
Bring it on, the sooner you implement it the faster populations can adapt to overcome it and there are alot of smart people in the general population that will :-) I have faith in that and that they will be as pissed as the rest of us as life is made more difficult to preserve the elites.
Invevitable consequences.
Go ahead try it fuckers.
Some of us are way more at ease face to face. When I talk my smack in person people ask me to run for office. So go ahead and run us offline and right into the streets where our real friends are.
In real life basic logic works even better for me than it does here. I can be far more candid in person.
Not long ago I walked into a shop full of Mexicans. Cool guys. We were shooting the shit while I did my thing. One of them asked me what I thought about the border issue. The look on all thier faces was great when I simply said ask the Aztecs. They were all set to rip me a new one. Turns out basic logic stands taller in person.
Another aspect that works in our favor. In real life I can prove that I am honest.
Me Im looking forward to meeting some of my online friends in person.
ObamaTrade
is not different than
ObamaCare
how's that working for you
if our representative's
want to fast-track this TPP
They will no longer be needed
#recallyourrepresentative
is this your fathers socialism
But do they really think that the rest of the world cannot create a new internet.
CabalA$$LickerHomObamma using CIA funded NGO & rebels to topple govt, Ukraine broke up & its gold looted(by USA) uprising in other countries too.
CabalA$$LickerHomObamma converted NSA into stasi , Snowden left USA to Russia , unimaginable
CabalA$$LickerHomObamma sanctioned Russia , Petroyuan is born, SWIFT is also on the chopping block
CabalA$$LickerHomObamma stopped the govt from functioning & locked the gates of govt. buildings, HAh ha
CabalA$$LickerHomObamma started QE with the help of kaballah dumping trillions of dollar down the drain
CabalA$$LickerHomObamma took millions of bribe(election fund) from pharma; obamacare to loot the Americans
CabalA$$LickerHomObamma forces all govts to become (pro) homosexuals; threatening the very existence of the most important institution in the world : THE FAMILY ; He is a destroyer of family , a demon from hell
CabalA$$LickerHomObamma created & mishandled ISIS , the world is on the brink of a world war 3 , probably nuclear , threatening the very existence of humankind.
CabalA$$LickerHomObamma's actions will lead to collapse of petrodollar , USA's influence & power will vanish, Americans will be begging
AND FOR ALL THESE BLUNDERS HE HAS NOBEL PRIZE FROM PIRATES (EUROPEONS PARROTS & POODLES)
SHAM
Rest of the world will create a new internet , becuz rst of the world is not in stone age ; btw the fastest computer is not in USA , it is in China