Cnet.com: Online activists Anonymous are targeting the European Parliament and supporters of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which critics say would curtail freedom of expression and encourage surveillance by service providers.
US music and movie industry companies helped to get pirate sites blocked in many countries but on their home turf, legal action is surprisingly absent. For years we have wondered why local ISPs are being left alone and we now have an answer. Former RIAA executive Neil Turkewitz says that SOPA's ghosts have been a major stumbling block.
Allowing private entities the power to censor the internet is never a good idea. If pirates can get blocked, so can unpopular bloggers and political groups. There are good reasons why SOPA failed, and if that failure is still bearing fruit, I applaud it.
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Screw ACTA.
Europe doesn't really have anyone saying no to the bill. It's going to pass (actually, it technically already has). It's actually worst than SOPA. I'd take SOPA over ACTA any day.
"Kader Arif of France, resigned today, saying he was opposed to the lack of transparency on the ACTA negotiations, the fact that the public was not consulted"
Damn right, I hadn't even heard of this until now, and I'm from the UK. This will be yet another thing that anti-EU supporters will latch on to, as a lot of people in the UK want to get out of the European Union due to lack of control over laws, such as this.
Anonymous i hope you try to defeat the canadian one too if any of them knows about it