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Guardian: The clock is ticking on a time bomb that could blow up a free internet: the TPP

Yesterday's leak confirms that the ‪#‎TPP‬ is a bad deal for Internet users. Tell Trade Ministers to reject the TPP's Internet censorship plan. Speak out at StopTheSecrecy.net Article by Evan Greer After years of secrecy, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement has finally been released to the public. The shadowy process and overreaching scope of the deal have sparked an international outcry; it’s been roundly condemned as an attack on worker’s rights, the environment, public health, small businesses and startups.

Yesterday's leak confirms that the ‪#‎TPP‬ is a bad deal for Internet users. Tell Trade Ministers to reject the TPP's Internet censorship plan. Speak out at StopTheSecrecy.net

Article by Evan Greer

After years of secrecy, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement has finally been released to the public. The shadowy process and overreaching scope of the deal have sparked an international outcry; it’s been roundly condemned as an attack on worker’s rights, the environment, public health, small businesses and startups.

But perhaps the biggest concern is over the impact that it will have on the internet.

The TPP is a legally-binding pact negotiated between 12 countries, including the United States. Industry lobbyists and government bureaucrats huddled for months in closed-door meetings to draft and debate the deal while journalists, human rights advocates and tech experts were locked out. It can’t accurately be called a “trade deal.” Its 30 chapters and 6,194 pages cover a dizzying range of policy questions that have nothing to do with tariffs, imports or exports. 

The final version of the TPP confirms advocates’ worst fears. Thanks to, among other things, its dramatic expansion of copyright enforcement, the agreement poses a grave threat to our basic right to access information and express ourselves on the web, and could easily be abused to criminalize common online activities and enforce widespread internet censorship.

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