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SAVE THE INTERNET!
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Dalia Hashad - Avaaz.org Wrote:Last week, 3 million of us beat back America's attack on our Internet! -- but there is an even bigger threat out there, and our global movement for freedom online is perfectly poised to kill it for good.

ACTA -- a global treaty -- could allow corporations to censor the Internet. Negotiated in secret by a small number of rich countries and corporate powers, it would set up a shadowy new anti-counterfeiting body to allow private interests to police everything that we do online and impose massive penalties -- even prison sentences -- against people they say have harmed their business.

Europe is deciding right now whether to ratify ACTA -- and without them, this global attack on Internet freedom will collapse. We know they have opposed ACTA before, but some members of Parliament are wavering -- let's give them the push they need to reject the treaty. Sign the petition -- we'll do a spectacular delivery in Brussels when we reach 500,000 signatures:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/?vl

It's outrageous -- governments of four-fifths of the worlds people were excluded from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations and unelected bureaucrats have worked closely with corporate lobbyists to craft new rules and a dangerously powerful enforcement regime. ACTA would initially cover the US, EU and 9 other countries, then be rolled out across the world. But if we can get the EU to say no now, the treaty will lose momentum and could stall for good.

The oppressively strict regulations could mean people everywhere are punished for simple acts such as sharing a newspaper article or uploading a video of a party where copyrighted music is played. Sold as a trade agreement to protect copyrights, ACTA could also ban lifesaving generic drugs and threaten local farmers' access to the seeds they need. And, amazingly, the ACTA committee will have carte blanche to change its own rules and sanctions with no democratic scrutiny.

Big corporate interests are pushing hard for this, but the EU Parliament stands in the way. Let's send a loud call to Parliamentarians to face down the lobbies and stand firm for Internet freedom. Sign now and send to everyone you know:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/?vl

Last week, we saw the strength of our collective power when millions of us joined forces to stop the US from passing an Internet censorship law that would have struck at the heart of the Internet. We also showed the world how powerful our voices can be. Let's raise them again to tackle this new threat.
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(01-26-2012, 17:02)jariz Wrote: FUCK ACTA

http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/

done Smile
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#3
gonna change the thread title to 'save the internet', will attract more people Awesome
also bump

U JELLY?
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#4
Kids... *harkle*
I know it's hard to believe bu... *cough cough* ah, I'm getting too old for this!
Oh, where was I...
Ah yes... I was a young man...
*looks up*
I was a 1337 soldier, serving the internets cause... We were many, living in peace unaware of the real life's sad truth.
But darkness was rising, a man, a dark lord, we called him... *thunder* we *whsipers* called him... "Sauron smith"!

But we fought, etc etc.

Now we got more to tell besides;
"WHEN I WAS AT YOUR AGE... I BROWSED FUNNY CAT PICTURES FOR HOURS!" Awesome
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#5
rendflex, y u no writer?!
edited thread again Awesome
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(01-27-2012, 10:15)jariz Wrote: rendflex, y u no writer?!

me no spek engrish rajt...
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When I was your age, I could watch porn legally.
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