Tag: Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

“A snow job” – that’s the verdict of this Nobel Prize-winning economist on Obama’s efforts to sell his top-secret TPP. Article by Paul Krugman for The New York Times One of the Obama administration’s underrated virtues is its intellectual honesty. Yes, Republicans see deception and sinister ulterior motives everywhere, but

More bad news about the TPP. Article by Maira Sutton for the EFF A newly leaked chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement from Wikileaks has confirmed some of our worst fears about the agreement. The latest provisions would enable multinational corporations to undermine public interest rules through an international tribunal process called

A huge leak just revealed that the TPP would establish a secretive, shadowy international court that could be used by Big Media giants to kick Internet users around the world offline. To make this nightmare a reality, anti-Internet lobbyists are pushing harder than ever to “fast track” the TPP. If

Fair use – the building block of remix art – is under threat.  Article by Mike Masnick via TechDirt We’ve been writing a lot about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement over the past few years. There are many, many problems with it, but the two key ones are the

The Prime Minister is gambling a lot on an agreement that could censor your Internet. Now it’s looking like that gamble will not pay off. Article by Barrie McKenna for The Globe and Mail Stephen Harper was in high spirits when the U.S. and the other members of the Trans-Pacific

Ever created a meme that went viral? Hollywood wants you to go to jail for that. Article by Maira Sutton for EFF The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) poses massive threats to users in a dizzying number of ways. It will force other TPP signatories to accept the United States’ excessive copyright terms of a minimum

Internet activists got all up in TPP negotiators’ faces yesterday. Article by Dell Cameron for The Daily Dot Fed up with secret meetings that will decide the future of trade for more than a dozen nations, a number of protesters swarmed a congressional hearing on the TPP Tuesday morning. read more

The government just announced $9 million to promote free expression on the Internet abroad, but what are they doing to prevent censorship here at home? Article by Evan Dyer for the CBC Canada wants to help undermine repressive regimes using the power of the web, says Foreign Affairs Minister John

Yesterday, the government announced a joint program with the Munk School of Global Affairs to help Internet users in authoritarian countries circumvent Internet censorship. The $9 million initiative is designed to promote free expression online, which has been declining thanks to repressive regimes cracking down on Internet users around the

Last week’s massive email leak at Sony revealed a number of unsavoury things about the company from the racist comments of Sony co-chairman Amy Pascal, to the company’s scramble to avoid provoking an international incident in the upcoming Judd Apatow comedy The Interview, to the fact that Oscar-winner and A-lister Jennifer Lawrence was paid less than her

The European Union has taken a huge leap towards transparency in releasing the text of a trade deal affecting member nations. Now, it’s time for Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiators to do the same and stop the secrecy. Article by Maira Sutton for the EFF EFF joins 47 other civil society groups

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