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<http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/author/doctorbulldog/> Think SOPA is
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*And, to think, the Internet was suppose to be a place where you could
exchange ideas and programs unfettered by your government:*
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*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<http://cdn.thejournal.ie/media/2012/01/20120125acta.pdf>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<http://gcn.com/articles/2012/01/25/ftc-anonymous-hack-sopa-megaupload-fallout.aspx>yesterday
in protest against the treaty, which was also the subject of
demonstrations
across major cities in
Poland<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10781339>,
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<http://www.prisonplanet.com/dhs-shut-down-blog-for-a-year-on-false-pretenses.html>,
websites are sometimes targeted for no justifiable reason.
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