[LINK] Fwd: ACTA: The new threat to the net

[Jan Whitaker]

AVAAZ petition.

>Dear friends,
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>A new global treaty could allow corporations to 
>police everything that we do on the Internet. 
>Last week 3 million of us successfully pushed 
>back the US censorship bills --Â if we act now, 
>we can get the EU Parliament to bury this new threat to all of us:Â
>
>Last week, 3 million of us beat back America's 
>attack on our Internet! -- but there is an even 
>bigger threat out there, and our global movement 
>for freedom online is perfectly poised to kill it for good.
>
>ACTA -- 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 business.
>
>Europe is deciding right now whether to ratify 
>ACTA -- and without them, this global attack on 
>Internet freedom will collapse. We know they 
>have opposed ACTA before, but some members of 
>Parliament are wavering --Â let's give them the 
>push they need to reject the treaty. Sign the 
>petition -- we'll do a spectacular delivery in 
>Brussels when we reach 500,000 signatures:
>
><http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/?cl=1533515246&v=12249>http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/?vl 
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