Think SOPA is Bad? Take a Look at the Treaty Obama Has Already Signed

New post on Doctor Bulldog & Ronin Think SOPA is Bad? Take a Look at the Treaty Obama Has Already Signed by doctorbulldog And, to think, the Internet was suppose to be a place where you could exchange ideas and programs unfettered by your government: Obama Signs Global Internet Treaty Worse Than SOPA White House bypasses Senate to ink agreement that could allow Chinese companies to demand ISPs remove web content in US with no legal oversight. Paul Joseph Watson - Infowars.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. Read more of this post doctorbulldog | 26 January, 2012 at 12:18 pm | Categories: Abuse of Power, censorship, Computers, Computing, Obama Sucks, Orwellian, politics | URL: http://wp.me/p1NPg-7xU Comment    See all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/think-sopa-is-bad-take-a-look-at-the-treaty-obama-has-already-signed/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com

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