{"id":1144,"date":"2012-01-24T05:15:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T05:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/24\/if-you-thought-sopa-was-bad-just-wait-until-you\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:17","slug":"if-you-thought-sopa-was-bad-just-wait-until-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/01\/24\/if-you-thought-sopa-was-bad-just-wait-until-you\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Thought SOPA Was Bad, Just Wait Until You Meet ACTA &#8211; Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/1042211350\/if-you-thought-sopa-was-bad-just-wait-until-you-meet-acta-forbes\" 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\/1042211350\/if-you-thought-sopa-was-bad-just-wait-until-you-meet-acta-forbes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/jiCjmNLYc5HjMnVK8DndWzl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/> Few people have heard of ACTA, or the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, but the provisions in the agreement are just as pernicious as anything we saw in SOPA. Worse, the agreement spans virtually all of the countries in the developed world, including all of the EU, the United States, Switzerland and Japan. \u00a0<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/erikkain\/2012\/01\/23\/if-you-thought-sopa-was-bad-just-wait-until-you-meet-acta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via forbes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; Liberties Few people have heard of ACTA, or the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, but the provisions in the agreement are just as pernicious as anything we saw in SOPA. Worse, the agreement spans virtually all of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/01\/24\/if-you-thought-sopa-was-bad-just-wait-until-you\/\">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-1144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1351,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/11\/20\/this-week-in-internet-censorship-sopa-uae\/","url_meta":{"origin":1144,"position":0},"title":"This Week in Internet Censorship: SOPA, UAE Bloggers on Hunger Strike, Chilean Sites Attacked | Electronic Frontier Foundation","author":"aslam","date":"November 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesInternational Community Rallies Against SOPAVia eff.org","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1052,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/04\/12\/cispa-is-sopa-20-petition-to-stop-it-boing\/","url_meta":{"origin":1144,"position":1},"title":"CISPA is SOPA 2.0: petition to stop it &#8211; Boing Boing","author":"aslam","date":"April 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesCISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (H.R. 3523), is a successor, of sorts, to the loathesome SOPA legislative proposal, which was shot down in flames earlier this year.Via boingboing.net","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1285,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/14\/setting-the-record-straight-on-sopa-some\/","url_meta":{"origin":1144,"position":2},"title":"Setting the Record Straight on SOPA: Some Evidence-Based Analysis | Electronic Frontier Foundation","author":"aslam","date":"December 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesEver since the Internet has fought back against the the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), top supporters of the dangerous blacklist legislation have tried to mask its full consequences by misconstruing criticism and distorting the opposition\u2019s position.Via eff.org","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1287,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/14\/sopa-the-ndaa-and-patent-trolling-why-americans\/","url_meta":{"origin":1144,"position":3},"title":"SOPA, the NDAA, and Patent-Trolling: Why Americans Need a Civil Liberties Caucus &#8211; Forbes","author":"aslam","date":"December 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties Nearly every elected official in Congress voted for the National Defense Authorization Act, a bill placing domestic terrorism investigations into the hands of the US Military. \u00a0Via forbes.com","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1155,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/01\/19\/protect-ip-sopa-protests-knock-senate-web-sites\/","url_meta":{"origin":1144,"position":4},"title":"Protect IP, SOPA protests knock Senate Web sites offline","author":"aslam","date":"January 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & Liberties An influx of visitors to Senate Web sites during the copyright protest knocked them temporarily offline. But the Capitol switchboard stayed up. Read this blog post by Declan McCullagh on Privacy Inc..Via news.cnet.com","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1118,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2012\/02\/02\/tell-congress-no-backroom-deals-to-regulate-the\/","url_meta":{"origin":1144,"position":5},"title":"Tell Congress: No Backroom Deals to Regulate the Internet | Electronic Frontier Foundation","author":"aslam","date":"February 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & 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 property provisions that go beyond ACTA. 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