Please Petition Europe to Oppose ACTA - a Global Treaty for Corporations to Censor the Internet
This is an update to my previous blogs:
The Avaaz team has just alerted us to a new threat to the Internet in the letter dated 25 January 2012 (as shown below) which urges us to petition Europe to oppose Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) – a global attack on Internet freedom.
In their updated letter of 29 January 2012, the Avaaz team asks us to help now as follows:
“In days, our petition will be delivered to decision-makers in Brussels — let’s reach 1 million!”
953,787 people have signed the petition below, at the time of this blog posting.
25 January 2012
“Dear friends,
A new global treaty could allow corporations to police everything that we do on the Internet. Last week 3 million of us successfully pushed back the US censorship bills – if we act now, we can get the EU Parliament to bury this new threat to all of us:  |
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.
