ACTA a ‘global threat’ – open letter
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- ACTA is a hard-core effort on the part of deeply corrupt corporations , with vested interest entertainment industry companies well to the front , aided by equally corrupt politicians, to gain control of the Internet. ACTA is a “global threat to freedoms,” say Consumers International (world federation of 220 consumer groups in 115 countries), EDRi (27 European civil rights and privacy NGOs), the Free Software Foundation (FSF), the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), ASIC (French trade association for web2.0 companies), and civil liberties organizations from all around Europe (9 Member States so far…) with more to follow. “A worldwide coalition of Non-Governmental Organizations, consumers unions and online service providers associations publish an open letter to the European institutions regarding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) currently under negotiation,” they say, calling on the European Parliament and the EU negotiators “to oppose any provision into the multilateral agreement that would undermine the fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens in Europe and across the world”.
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ACTA a ‘global threat’ – open letter
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