SOPA is back, this time embedded in the TPP

[SandyRavage666]

Last week I left a post concerning a Congressional bill aimed at stopping human trafficking which had hidden items attached to it which would have had ramifications for websites like myfreecams. That is tiddlywinks compared to what could be looming in the near future.

So the government (and by government I mean the burgeonging international global governing bodies we all seem to falling under) is once again trying to do what it can to bring back "SOPA," this time embedded deep in the international Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. This is very very gross. It is yet another attempt at legislation, this time international treaty law, which would put every single thing on the internet at risk of being taken down if some corporate bootlicker feels it could effect his shareholder's bottom line if it's left up.

To find talk of the TPP anywhere on the news is hard enough as it is - odd, considering this would be the most historic international treaty in the history of the world. But the few outlets who are warning us about the TPP aren't talking about the ramifications it could have on web cam modeling.

If you make a living as a cam model it is in your interest to fight the TPP. The TPP is bad for everyone unless you're a major international corporation. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has been railing against the TPP agreement for some time now. She's probably the one person in Washington whom we can trust considering her entire career has been based on exposing the fraud and hypocrisy of the banking industry.

Find where you can to sign a petition- call your legislators if you're into that kind of thing- tell your friends and family or whoever will listen. The future of a free and neutral internet as we know it is at risk, and with that, everything that a free internet offers us. INCLUDING web cam modeling.

https://www.battleforthenet.com/internetvote/

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[LuckySmiles]

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So I just came across this article and was like... hmmm wonder if any brainy's on ACF can break this down better. I never quite understand some of this stuff personally, and the regulations confuse me a bit. I did a quick forum search of The Transpacific Partnership Agreement on the forum and this thread came up, so I figured I'd tack it on.

This is the article I came across on it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...mpaigners-warn-that-secret-pact-a6680321.html

An agreement that some campaigners have called the “biggest global threat to the internet” has just been signed, potentially bringing huge new restrictions on what people can do with their computers.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the conclusion of five years of negotiations, and will cover 40 per cent of the world’s economy. Its claimed purpose is to create a unified economic bloc so that companies and businesses can trade more easily — but it also puts many of the central principle of the internet in doubt, according to campaigners.

Landmark TPP deal announced in Atlanta
One particularly controversial part of the provisions make it a crime to reveal corporate wrongdoing "through a computer system". Experts have pointed out that the wording is very vague, and could lead to whistleblowers being penalised for sharing important information, and lead to journalists stopping reporting on them.

Others require that online content providers — such as YouTube and Facebook — must take down content if they receive just one complaint, as they are in the US. That will be harmful for startups looking to build such businesses since they'll be required to have the resources to respond to every complaint, experts have pointed out.

In 2013, when the partnership was still being discussed, the Electronic Freedom Foundation called TPP “one of the worst global threats to the internet”. The changes are dangerous because to unify the various countries in the partnerships’ rules on intellectual property and other internet law, they are opting to take the US’s largely very restrictive rules.

“The TPP is likely to export some of the worst features of U.S. copyright law to Pacific Rim countries: a broad ban on breaking digital locks on devices and creative works (even for legal purposes), a minimum copyright term of the lifetime of the creator plus seventy years (the current international norm is the lifetime plus fifty years), privatization of enforcement for copyright infringement, ruinous statutory damages with no proof of actual harm, and government seizures of computers and equipment involved in alleged infringement,” wrote Katitza Rodriguez and Maira Sutton.

The changes could also lead to huge new rules about surveillance.

“Under this TPP proposal, 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,” write Expose The TPP, a campaign group opposing the agreement.

As well as imposing strict rules on those on the internet, activists point out that some of the parts of the agreement could limit central parts of the internet and modern computers. A restriction on breaking “digital locks” for instance — which is meant to allow companies to control their products even after they have been bought by customers — could stop disabled people from making important changes to their computers or using different technology.

The agreement has been made in secret and will not be fully published publicly for years.

Tech experts wrote to the US Congress in May to demand more transparency about the agreement.

"Despite containing many provisions that go far beyond the scope of traditional trade policy, the public is kept in the dark as these deals continue to be negotiated behind closed doors with heavy influence from only a limited subset of stakeholders," they wrote.

Something of concern? Thoughts?

 

[Shaun__]

Something of concern? Thoughts?

Rich people will get richer, and poor people will go to jail. Same shit, different day.