{"id":1118,"date":"2012-02-02T21:46:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T21:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/02\/tell-congress-no-backroom-deals-to-regulate-the\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:15","slug":"tell-congress-no-backroom-deals-to-regulate-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/02\/tell-congress-no-backroom-deals-to-regulate-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Congress: No Backroom Deals to Regulate the Internet | Electronic Frontier Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1109369123\/tell-congress-no-backroom-deals-to-regulate-the-internet-electronic-frontier-foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1109369123\/tell-congress-no-backroom-deals-to-regulate-the-internet-electronic-frontier-foundation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/DEsoWpAzg46CFcOthkkv5jl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>Right now, representatives from nine countries including the United States are secretly meeting in a luxury hotel in Beverly Hills to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a trade agreement with the potential to contain intellectual property provisions that go beyond ACTA. These secret meetings could create over-reaching new rules and standards that will choke off the online speech of individuals, websites, and platforms accused of copyright infringement.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2012\/02\/tell-congress-no-backroom-deals-regulate-internet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via eff.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesRight now, representatives from nine countries including the United States are secretly meeting in a luxury hotel in Beverly Hills to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a trade agreement with the potential to contain intellectual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/02\/tell-congress-no-backroom-deals-to-regulate-the\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":210,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2015\/09\/01\/landmark-agreement-ends-indeterminate-long-term\/","url_meta":{"origin":1118,"position":0},"title":"Landmark Agreement Ends Indeterminate Long-Term\u2026","author":"aslam","date":"September 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Landmark Agreement Ends Indeterminate Long-Term Solitary Confinement in California | Center for Constitutional Rights #ViaDiasporaNativeWebApp #SolitaryConfinement original post","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":316,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2015\/01\/09\/sorry-iphone-users-apples-dev-agreement-means-no\/","url_meta":{"origin":1118,"position":1},"title":"Sorry iPhone Users: Apple\u2019s Dev Agreement Means No EFF Mobile App for iOS | Electronic Frontier Foundation","author":"aslam","date":"January 9, 2015","format":"link","excerpt":"Lots of developers hold their nose and sign the agreement despite these onerous conditions, and that\u2019s understandable. 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