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We now know the controversial international agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), threatens to criminalize your online activity including use of your favorite websites. A new chief
negotiator named Michael Froman has just been announced. Will you send
him a message at this pivotal moment before Big Media lobbyists get to
him? |
“The Biggest Global Threat to the Internet”: That’s how legal experts describe the controversial international agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).1
The TPP agreement threatens to
criminalize use of your favorite websites—including YouTube, Instagram,
Facebook, and your favourite blog—and even your online comments.2 But you can stop it if you act now >>>
A man named Michael Froman
has just been appointed as the new TPP chief negotiator. Froman now has
a unique ability either to put this secretive, global Internet
criminalization plan to an end – or to cement it into place for
generations.
Legal experts are now warning that under the TPP, normal
online activities “could lead you to be cut off from the Internet, have
your computer seized, be fined up to $150,000, or even land you in
prison.”3
We can do this,
Steve and Josh, on behalf of your OpenMedia team
P.S. After you participate in this time-sensitive action, please help us continue to push this campaign by chipping in whatever you can now—every bit really does help our small team succeed. Thank you for supporting this community in its time of need.
Footnotes
[1]
Recent analysis by lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation called
the TPP the biggest global threat to the Internet. Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation.
[2] Provisions in leaked drafts of the TPP could prohibit use of “temporary copies”, which according to policy experts at InternetNZ, are crucial: “The Internet—and computing—fundamentally depends on making temporary copies.”
The EFF writes that if this proceeds, “anyone who ever views content on their device could potentially be found liable of infringement”.
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