ACTA action: Poland signs up to 'censorship' as 20,000 rage

January 26, 2012 10:36

After days of protests and hacker attacks, Poland has signed the controversial ACTA copyright protection treaty. Opponents call it an assault on online freedom, since it demands that internet service providers police user activity.

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Neatt (unregistered) 29.05.2012 19:56

I laud Holland for throwing out this ACTA trash, which represents nothing but erosion of people's liberties, freedom of speech, democracy, etc., the same values that the proponents of the proposal claim to uphold - utter hypocrisy!  If you are for the Act (Poland, et al), you must be either disingenius or a nut head.  Knowledge is for the benefit of all mankind; and so is freedom of speech and expression. If you try to stifle knowledge, or to ration it, the conclusion can only be that you have something to hide, or something you are afraid of.  Viva Holland!  Keep on the sane track.

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Art Francisco 27.01.2012 13:24

This isn't about religious conspiracy theories like Zionism or the Vatican, (although both of those mentioned are authoritarian), this is about the property owners vs the people who do not own property. This is about Capitalism, the protection of property, the control by the rich, vs Socialism, the sharing of property, the control by the many working peoples. This is a new class struggle. ACTA is about intellectual property and control over commodity distribution and production. People realize commodities that does not apply to your immediate needs should be shared and that we need an alternative to capitalism. Now that we have had experience with sharing systems such as open source software, Wikipedia, etc, we are becoming more open minded to a sharing based economy. With wikileaks and anonymous, we are realizing the extreme importance of political transparency for a healthy democracy.

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Devea 27.01.2012 00:57

Iceman wrote in #3 Why do people use those CIA masks? I really don't understand it.


Only proves how easy it is to actually control masses.
This masks are inspired by character from Alan Moore's "V for Vendetta".

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Kevin (unregistered) 26.01.2012 22:27

Not a huge surprise as Poland is controlled&n bsp;by Zionists  just like America.

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Eurasian 26.01.2012 20:12

Watt Tyler wrote in #15
Harry... .the Vatican is very powerful again in Britain now they have installed Catholics to run the Zionist BBC..... and of course they share control of the EU Fourth Reich with the Zionists and Soros and the CIA.
Again the average Catholic is ignorant of this powerful Mafia in the Vatican.....but just read the words of Jesus Christ and then look at how the politicians in the Vatican behave?    I don`t remember Christ telling people to live in palaces and have reserves of gold?
 @W Tylor, in support of your observation perhaps to make the simple connection between the actions of GWB and the newly secretly converted in Catholicism T Blair - attacking Iraq, then T Blair becoming the ME “peace envoy” and shortly after the ME bursts into the magical flames of an “Arab spring revolution” would be enough to put the peaces together. I don’t believe in coincidences, certainly not when the facts so strikingly obvious. The teachings of Christ and the afterwards established religion and church are two separate concepts, indeed strongly contradicting and conflicting eac h other.

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Ananas 26.01.2012 19:41

Nowdays people are blind , USA say that they are * Fighting for Freedoom *
Now we can see that freedom they fight for... even  in internet , in vietnam and irak  in past , in  afghanistan , in iran/pakistan  soon , humanity dont make difference between the true and the falseanymore  , between freedom and enslavemennt ...
In some countrys ,  enslavement become their freedom , Banks and Money of rockefeller and their  master * USA *  /  * Zionist *  are winning souls of people year after year   , but will it stay like this forever ?  will russia and china and such other  country non yet enslaved accept this?
To be continued

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acta 26.01.2012 18:29

The main concern about ACTA is that it has been worked on in a complete secrecy without public consultations and even without consultation with NGOs.
Moreover, there are many doubts regarding articles. Mainly because they are quite general and leave much room for interpretation.
ACTA implies that law enforcement agencies are empowered to enter to your home to confiscate your computer only on the grounds of suspicion about a piracy - without any warrant.  ACTA is an excellent tool to fight with competition as well as with inconvenient opinions. Needless to say, ACTA is a straight way to cut down on the freedom of speech in the Internet, and what's the worst - in the name of protection of intellectual property.
If ACTA is ratified, internet providers will have to control private mails and analyze information which we pass on. People are afraid of surveillance and that's why they go out on the streets. They do not want to ACTA. They are against an enslavement.
The Polish Minister of Administration and Digitization said: "The Acta agreement in no way changes Polish laws or the rights of internet users and internet usage."
BUT shortly after that Prime Minister said: "It would be an extravagance if Poland did not sign the agreement and was the only country in Europe which does not respect copyright."
Firstly, Poland has its own law regarding protection for intellectual property and it is not true that the Poles don't respect them.
Secondly, many people are confused and asking if Acta will have some impact on inner law, or not, but the Polish government is still only spreading a lot of confusion.  
And finally, why the government wants to adopt this bill if it doesn’t change anything indeed?
This situation is outrageous as well as the way we are treated. The government signed this treaty despite the fact that over a dozen of thousands citizens had been protesting on the streets of the biggest Polish cities.
In the face of these facts, it should not surprise anyone that the Poles are protesting against the document and the circumstances of its signing.

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Caveman 26.01.2012 18:22

ACTA is a wonderful tool to censure the internet. Understand, Jay Rockefeller and his tribe are getting close to implement the same standards in the WWW as in the MSM.
Concerning demonstrations / censureship, I haven' t seen anything about the large pro government / pro Orban demonstration in Budapest from last satuday on this channel... people were demonstrating against banksters, IMF and the EC..

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Watt Tyler 26.01.2012 17:35

Harry....the Vatican is very powerful again in Britain now they have installed Catholics to run the Zionist BBC..... and of course they share control of the EU Fourth Reich with the Zionists and Soros and the CIA.
Again the average Catholic is ignorant of this powerful Mafia in the Vatican.....but just read the words of Jesus Christ and then look at how the politicians in the Vatican behave?    I don`t remember Christ telling people to live in palaces and have reserves of gold?

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harry (unregistered) 26.01.2012 17:22

Is the POPE and the Vatican behind this pressured Poland to sign?It would be in favour of the Catholic Church to control  and the throttle the internet.

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Eurasian 26.01.2012 16:49

Watt Tyler wrote in #9
Cheers Eurasian!
But don`t be too hard on RT....even the Russian Revolution was financed by the City of London....and of over eighty members of the first post-revolutionary government sixty were Jews ....I am told.
But don`t be too hard on the ordinary Jews either....because that would be like blaming me for the BBC and the Zionist controlled British Government!
I feel sorry for ordinary Jews....first the Holocaust in Europe and soon there could be another in the Middle East....but they are brainwashed into believing it was just caused by anti-semitism......w ithout realising that what caused the anger was the Jewish elite and their criminal activity.
Would there have been a Holocaust without the 1929 Wall Street Crash Scam and the global depression that followed it? Glad to hear from your again W Tyler, Absolutely agree with you, and have friends Jews wonderful ppl thinking like you and me who opened my eyes giving me better understanding of the functional entity of Israel, with which wrong policies they strongly disagree. Alike there are strong ´peace and anti-governmental´ movements inside Israel. Tyler we are talking here about Rothschild Zionism, Vatican, the British imperial monitory system [City of London], the Wall Street, Illuminati, freemasons, skulls, knighters, moones, and all those secret societies who hide behind the scenes manipulate and control the mankind… who don’t care at all about the ordinary men, would it be a Jew, Brit, American, whoever.Take care!
 

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Dante Xaiver 26.01.2012 16:48

All of us in this world do not no what democracy is. When our leaders and Hollywood get together and create ACTA and sign it with out public consultation they have signed away our freedom. Freedom is for sale to the highest bidder and we the citizens are property of our dictators and the corporations that command them. Our dictator leaders are no different then the average hookers they are both sl*ts to money. People wake up disconnect from the matrix and stop being slaves.

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Willmot 26.01.2012 16:32

They believe the Pope is unfallible and direct speaker of God and the purpose of a women is to have children and nothing else and never, ever had any freedom in their own country , so be it . Slave are born ! Useless Poland.

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