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Chapter from TPP leaked

jeudi 14 novembre 2013 à 13:00

A chapter of the TPP has been leaked, covering a wide range of topic including copyrights, patents, ISP censorship, and international tribunals that don't care about human rights.

Not surprisingly, the US government takes the harshest position towards people (including Americans). However, there is no possible good to be achieved by such a treaty; all it can do is harm.

This would attack our freedom in many unrelated ways, but the most basic attack, which paves the way for the others, lies in lumping together so many unrelated laws and issues and calling them "intellectual property" as if they had some coherent relationship. That term spreads confusion, and if we repeat it when criticizing the details of the chapter, we're undermining our own side.

The TPP's an attack on public health.

13 US cities held protests against the TPP.