Petition against online censorship

February 5, 2012

WITH NOISE LEVELS around SOPA and Megaupload almost deafening ACTA – the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement which the US has ratified with a growing number of EU and Asian countries – has been overlooked, even though it is in the throes of being pushed through the EU.
But an online petition aimed at EU lawmakers has been attracting a steady amount of signatures from the online community, with its creators aiming for two million signatures from the global online community before it is submitted to the EU in a few days.
The petition’s creators are not mincing words, and state that: โ€œACTA – a global treaty – could allow corporations to censor the Internet. Negotiated in secret by a small number of rich countries and corporate powers, it would set up a shadowy new anti-counterfeiting body to allow private interests to police everything that we do online and impose massive penalties – even prison sentences – against people they say have harmed their businessโ€.
This impassioned statement has clearly resonated with large numbers of internet users across the world, as the volume of signatures continues to grow on a minute by minute basis. Whilst the petitions creators were originally aiming for 500,000 signatures, theyโ€™d surpassed this with the number of online signatures well past the 1.3 million mark. PAT PILCHER
The petition can be found at https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stop_acta/

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