Why is Obama so hell bent on taking American's rights? Why are leftists so proud of him stripping our rights? http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/01/26/meet-sopas-evil-twin-acta/
"...In 2010, 75 law professors signed a letter to President Obama urging him not to sign the pact. They went unheeded. Obama signed the pact..."
When I wrote my Republican congressmen, I pointed out that the SOPA/PIPA opposition proved the American people are against ACTA, and that Congress should not let Obama undermine their authority. That they should demand Obama declassify it and present it to congress for ratification. I think hitting the Republicans with the them and the people vs Obama rhetoric might be a workable approach. Heck they've used the 2 party system to manipulate us, maybe we can return the favor.
Not a bad approach. I just don't see how the Dims can support a person that is so blatantly hell bent on creating Big Brother and stripping the rights of individual freedoms.
How is this not getting any attention? Maybe this thread needs to be moved to "current events" as it is a current event, my suspicion is that very few know about it. It's a fact the media isn't reporting on it. People looked at SOPA/PIPA and became outraged. SOPA/PIPA became headline news and we hear very little (next to none) concerning ACTA and the fact Obama has already signed it. The treaty was cloaked in secrecy and makes both of the other regulations look like child's play. To rub salt in the wound the WH will try to pass it off as an "Executive Agreement" and completely by-passing the 2/3 approval from the Senate. For those unaware; 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. The groups pushing the treaty also want to empower copyright holders with the ability to demand that users who violate intellectual property rights (with no legal process) have their Internet connections terminated, a punishment that could only ever be properly enforced by the creation of an individual Internet ID card for every web user, a system that is already in the works. MORE: Obama Tries to Bypass Congress with Deadly Global Internet Treaty ACTA Did Obama break constitutional law by signing the ACTA treaty?
