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Head of Mozilla Says ACTA Is 'A Bad Way To Develop Internet Policy'
from the lizard-wrangler-speaks dept
One telling sign of the widespread concern about SOPA/PIPA was that the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, which oversees the open source Firefox and Thunderbird projects, abandoned its non-interventionist policy, and came out strongly against the bills. It first signed a joint letter sent to the key sponsors of both bills, and then modified its home page, pointing to further information about SOPA. That, in its turn, linked to a post entitled "PIPA/SOPA and Why You Should Care," written by Mitchell Baker, the Chair of the Mozilla Foundation.
Baker has now written another, entitled "ACTA is a Bad Way To Develop Internet Policy", which explicitly links ACTA and SOPA/PIPA:
One aspect of the controversy about ACTA is the closed process where only a tiny subset of people affected by the law were allowed to participate. Another great controversy is about the actual content of ACTA. We know that the goal of stopping unauthorized access to digital content can lead to very dangerous results. The proposed SOPA and PIPA legislation in the U.S made this abundantly clear. This is an area where even good intentions can lead to imbalanced and dangerous results.
The post is fairly restrained, and basically recommends that people should find out more about ACTA and "make their voice heard." But it's a further indication that people from all sectors are waking up to the problems with ACTA, just as they did with SOPA/PIPA.
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With some luck (and good planning) perhaps this will swing a spotlight over to TPP which is just as bad, perhaps worse. Though we won't know until we ever get to see the complete text of that proposed treaty.
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Mozilla is bed with Google.
Google is trying to promote piracy because they're greedy billionaires that can't make their own content. They promote it via tech astroturf groups and blogs like Techdirt.
Nobody is fooled by tech propaganda anymore after the giant lying campaign that went down over SOPA.
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I' m doing my best to get through all the legalese. Who decided to make law so long-winded?
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I hate to break it to you, but the stuff Big Media puts out isn't even remotely that entertaining. Legitimate usage of the Internet is much more fun.
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You're way too provocative to be taken seriously. Be more subtle next time for a better response.
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Anyone not utterly consumed by greed is one step closer to "free", and we know what that means, don't we?
Pirates.
I say kill em all and let the shareholders decide if it was in synergy with the core profitability vision.
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Or is that what you're referring to? Mozilla and Google are "stealing" the next generation?
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Sorry - you were pre -empted by the comedy troll this time - you lose!
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to the fools who think anti-ACTA=pro-piracy
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