Thursday, September 6, 2012

TPP = Evil


The TPP or the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement is the next entity to make a run at limited the freedom of the internet by favoring businesses over our freedom of speech and open use of the internet. Similar to SOPA, and PIPA which also wished to limit the freedom of the internet, but were stopped. This could be a very big problem for internet users if the same does not happen to the TPP. In a nutshell the TPP wants to enforce ISP liability beyond the current stand by holding them much more accountable for the stop of illegal copyright infringement.



What i find very disturbing is how they are almost giving the service providers the job of the judiciary. The TPP wishing to implement a three strike policy which ends with the users' internet access taken away and the identities of the service providers costumers must be given to IP rights holders which causes many problems for the service providers. By making these Service providers enforce these things in limits free speech immensely due the the service providers inability to give low cost servers to users because the costs to enforce.

In my personal opinion the TPP needs to be stopped immediately. Freedom of the internet cannot be taken away because it is more than our internet access we are losing, its our basic freedoms such as speech that we are losing too.

1 comment:

  1. I like that you took a clear stance against the TPP instead of just summarizing what you read. You gave us your full on opinion. I like the details about how the ISPs would be affected.

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