EU Parlamentarian Gallo: ACTA Dissent 'A Soft Form Of Terrorism'
from the she-finally-said-it dept
Marielle Gallo is probably best known for the Gallo Report, which Techdirt described back in 2010 as a "similarly draconian intellectual property enforcement" to ACTA, with which it has much in common. So it's no surprise that Gallo has been one of the few vocal supporters of ACTA, and it was widely expected that the EU's Legal Affairs (JURI) committee she chairs would support her draft opinion calling for ACTA to be ratified. As we now know, that didn't happen, and JURI formed one of five committees that all recommended that ACTA should be rejected.
Gallo must be a little taken aback by this turnaround: from easily pushing through her Report with its harsh proposals against copyright infringement, she now finds herself increasingly marginalized within the European Parliament on the subject of ACTA precisely because of its disproportionate measures designed to deal with copyright infringement online. A fascinating interview in PC INpact (original in French) gives us an insight into her state of mind at the moment..
As you might expect, she speaks of the "the disinformation campaign we have been enduring for the past months", the standard line taken by the European Commission and its allies. She also makes the interesting claim that "We're supposed to represent citizens, but since they are busy with other things, we are supposed to think for them!" But she reserves her choicest words for the people who have dared to disagree with the pro-ACTA camp:
It's not only a disinformation campaign. It's a soft form of terrorism that frightens people. People are being scared. It's a fantasy. ACTA has become a fantasy. And that, that's propagated by the whole Internet network.
So there we have it. Anyone who dares to disagree with those politicians doing all that thinking are "soft" terrorists, making subversive use of "the whole Internet network" to spread their "fantasy." It was probably inevitable that someone would play the politicians' trump card -- terrorism – against ACTA opponents; and it's no surprise that it was Marielle Gallo that finally did so.
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var i = 1;
while ( i > 0 )
{
echo ("OMG Teh Terroristz");
passLegislation();
}
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The system works!
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bool busy;
do
{
busy = true;
if (lobbied_by_mafiaa())
{
std::cerr << "Piratez and terroristz!" << std::endl;
pass_legislation();
}
else
{
get_lobbyists();
}
}
while (busy);
while (!busy) do_something_useful();
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that said, the code made me laugh....lol(im not a coder, but I have helped track down and fix bugs in alot of software for friends who are, and about 1/2 of them dont like .net simply because its MS, on the other hand they all like .net better then using java.....(lol?)
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I hated bush, but....obama sadly isnt any better...
and if romney wins, same shit different day...
the more I look at our political system the more I realise that what we got is a system where we are encouraged to vote for one arsehole or another, based on colour, smell and texture....and no matter who gets voted in, we all should know, we are going to get shat on....
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I find it difficult to believe that there are not better willing candidates in a population of over 300 million.
So much for self interested competition forcing the cream to the top.
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I guess there should be soft conspirators, also, then?
(Conspiracy to undermine democracy, for those who haven't figured it out already.)
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Re: I guess there should be soft conspirators, also, then?
Tyranny is the right word. Unrestrained abuse of power. Even if ACTA is voted down, we're going to get it rammed down our throats anyway -- for our own good. Our dear leaders know best.
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FTFY
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It's very hard to fathom a more ridiculous argument than the OP, but here goes.
IP laws contribute to the economy which contributes to more jobs which contributes to more tax revenue which contributes to more space defense funding which can be used to deflect comets from hitting the earth. Without IP laws comets may hit the earth, especially since IP laws contribute to the military and government funded innovation necessary to develop the necessary technologies to deflect these things. Also, aliens can better attack us without the technology that more jobs helps fund. So we need IP laws.
It's like there is a competition over who can come up with the most ridiculous claims. Does anyone think that IP extremists will top this one?
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/!\ ALERT /!\ terrorist detected at TD! Seize the domain!
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us vs. them
And the entertainment industry thinks for us.
Free thinkers = terrorists.
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* but only what is on cable, no internet or youtube allowed
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My name is...
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What are you doing thinking for yourself. That's Gallo's job. You have been warned.
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...This Gallo is completely INCONCEIVABLE!
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Isn't Gallo an Italian name?
(Maybe we're lucky she's a member of a different MafiAA than various other Gallos?)
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n. The battle cry of a politician in the process of trying to pass an law that the citizens do not support.
Synonyms; Cyber-war, Cyber-threat, cyber-bullying, "Think of the children!"
=P
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WTF??
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All I can say is that I am proud to be a ''terrorist'', even a ''soft'' one! :D
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If we showed file-sharing to Joseph McCarthy, it'd be called communism.
If we showed file-sharing to Jerry Falwell, it'd be called satanism (especially if it's was porn!).
Any other moral panics?
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Here's the fun part....
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Since this law actually gives terrorism more importance than it has in reality, the law is in violation of itself!
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what the hell europe? is everyone in the west trying to see who can out bat#### each other?
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This is just a paranoid dilution. She probably also supports Hadopi!
Give the woman 10 mg of risperidone and give her a nice new jacket on.
If you want to, you can send her to Denmark where she will end up on a waitinglist for a year (http://www.kl.dk/Momentum/momentum2011-1-1-id78837/), get far overdosed when she gets into treatment (http://www.180grader.dk/Videnskab/forsker-rystet-dobbelt-op-p-psykose-medicin) and will get released again far too fast for her to have recovered (http://www.bedrepsykiatri.dk/nyheder/psykisk-syge-udskrives-for-tidligt.aspx).
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I most certainly don't need you to do my thinking for me. In fact with "logic" like you have expressed, I wouldn't trust you to do the thinking for my four year old, much less myself.
Given your clear contempt for "the masses" and the fact you deem us as "soft terrorists", I will in turn express my contempt for you. I consider your opinion of me/us irrelevant as in my opinion you are, at best, in need of serious psychological help and at worst guilty of crimes against humanity (and should be afford the proper punishments).
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Wait for it....
Wait for it...
The cyberpedophilepornterrorist.
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Fixed it.
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She's a witch!
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I will enjoy hearing the sound of fandom nerds who break God's laws and steal intellectual property working on the chain gang. Soon you and your families will join them. We will place wireless surveillance cameras in your house to make sure you do nothing that infringes copyright that goes with those who sing in the shower. And we will make it mandatory for everyone to have DRM thought police implants in their brains so that they will be uncreative, unproductive, and nothing else except buying our products. You have no free will or any type of freedom once we have that DRM chip implanted inside your little skull.
Gallo knows "Thou shall not steal".
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WOW, I wish I can shill this good. no wonder he gets the big bucks.
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the hell?
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