ACTA Negotiators Still Claiming Secrecy Is Needed; Turn Off WiFi At Briefing
from the it's-not-war dept
EU's ACTA negotiators apparently held a briefing about the latest draft, and apparently they ordered the WiFi in the room turned off, to stop real time reports from "leaking" to sites like le quadrature and Wikileaks. Apparently, EU negotiators are unfamiliar with mobile data and sites like Twitter, where reports of the meeting were posted in real time by folks like David Hammerstein.So why would EU's head negotiator, Luc Devigne, want the WiFi turned off in a meeting about an agreement that can impact everyone and should be debated in public? Apparently, he claimed "without secrecy, no trade agreement can be successful." Huh? This must be from the secret negotiators handbook, because it makes no sense, and there's absolutely no support for such a statement. And, he's being willfully misleading in pretending that this is a trade agreement. It's not. And if you want to know how an agreement will be unsuccessful? It's by keeping out those stakeholders who such an agreement will most impact.
Separately Devigne insisted that Mexico will sign the document, despite the unanimous vote against the ACTA process.
Finally, he claimed that "ACTA text is finalized but not stabilized." What does that even mean? It means it's not finalized and negotiators are trying to sugarcoat the fact that there are still substantial differences between participating countries.
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Thankfully, there's 3G
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What prevents the electronic documents from leaving on the laptops/flash drives/etc that contain said documents?
It's not like people can't just go use the internet somewhere else.
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Classic
at any rate, they got their way in the UK, just had to give parliament some kind of excuse, like, "I didn't know what we were voting on" and va va voom, your now under the thumb on big content's lawyers.
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and heres how it goes via secret recording
"ok now we can pretend to not have a doc with lots a teeth"
"we can get this watered down version and then after the stupid masses get used to that we'll just add all the rest of this that we can't now"
YEA exactly what EVERYONE IS THINKING TOO
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It is a founding part of democracy that NO LAWS SHALL BE MADE IN SECRET! I.E. that every law from first draft to final version has to be totally public so that the public can chime in on the bill and tell their REPRESENTATIVES (key word there!) what they agree with in the bill and what they do not.
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It means that the creators of ACTA have compromised as far as their willing to and will have everyone agree to it if they have to take crowbars to people's knees.
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LAW
"NO PERSON (least of all a government) IS ABOVE THE LAW".
Any "ACT" by any government, which interferes with the internet being used for the protection of people and planet (LIFE AND PROPERTY) from CRIMINAL ENVIRONMENTAL ABUSE, is in itself a CRIMINAL ACT, to be controlled by the Common Law, in accordance with the Principles of Equity.
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1) Damages says that ALL of the impetus is on the infringer. They pay to have their things taken away and destroyed (if counterfeit items) or deleted (if it's small infringement such as music)
2) Security is truly a joke. Basically, the rights holder gets to play the cop by telling law enforcement what's good or bad. Very little of this is overseen through judicial review, it's instead all about the rights holder and enforcement.
3) Judges are granted a little power, but there's very little oversight on their part. Add to this the fact that there is little in the civil or criminal sections to say you are "innocent until proven guilty" and you have a text that reads totally against almost all parts of the US Amendment just to start.
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Gregg's respone: Well, shame on any reporters harmed by the WIFI being manipulatively turned off. Any reporter during the briefing who sat with a notebook/netbook on his/her lap, or who sat or stood with a smartphone in his/her hand, either of which relied on WIFI, ultimately gets exactly what s/he deserves.
At bare minimum, a reporter's Internet connectivity should be by his/her own provision by whatever means which no one (except by unintentional/unplanned ISP system failure) could manipulatively turn off. Any reporter's computer or smartphone should have its Internet connectivity be only via a mobile data 3G/4G internal card or external USB dongle whenever s/he's not in his/her own controlled environment (home, or work... or at least someplace where no one's likely to have a stake in stopping him/her fromm connecting).
Period.
Any reporter not so equipped is a doofus.
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Gregg L. DesElms
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gregg at greggdeselms dot com
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