thinkingofelephants:

cyruspotnoodle:

digatisdi:

dammitjean:

Apparently, the US government has already indicated that it will not allow any form of weakening of intellectual property law for any reason whatsoever in this agreement. In fact, the USTR has directly said that it will only allow for “harmonizing” intellectual property regulations “strictly upwards,” meaning greater protectionism. Given the mounds of evidence suggesting that over protection via such laws is damaging to the economy, this is immensely troubling, and once again shows how the USTR is making policy by ignoring data. This is scary.

The Obama Administration has developed a policy on transparency for the TPP negotiations which apparently does not involve any commitments to sharing the text with the general public, even after it has been given to all member countries in the negotiation and to hundreds of corporate insiders on the USTR advisory board system.

Deeeeelightful!

Can we all just stop trying to break the internet? Is that really too much to ask for?

Okay, this article’s from last January. Is is still accurate? Do we have another thing to freak out about/wage Internet war over? Because if we do, I swear I’m going to find the idiot who keeps coming up with these things and strangle him. Or her, let’s not be sexist here.

Post about ACTA from as recently as yesterday (ETA: TUESDAY, sorry) stated that TPP is something we should definitely be worrying about: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120124/11270917527/what-is-acta-why-is-it-problem.shtml. That was why I felt it was necessary to share the original article about TPP.

(Source: maybejustified, via alwaysmoriparty)