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Re: Latest TPP leak shows systemic threat to software freedom

From Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Latest TPP leak shows systemic threat to software freedom
Date 2015-04-19 15:47 -0300
Organization Bridgewater Institute for Advanced Study - Blacksmith Shop
Message-ID <87bnikc5vb.fsf@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> (permalink)
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Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:

> https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/latest-tpp-leak-shows-systemic-threat-to-software-freedom
> 
> Quoting from the URL above:
> 
>    [snip]
>
>    Given the destructive nature of these provisions, the fact that
>    proprietary developers could use them to interfere with local
>    government protections of users' rights is cause for alarm.

The whole TPP is "cause for alarm".  Like the similarly secretive
Multilateral Argeement on Investment of two decades ago, the TPP
reduces we'uns natural persons (AKA citizens of putatively free and
more or less democratic nations) to the status of krill and
establishes "investors" as the only truly represented citizens of the
"partneship" domain.

In '97, the MAI shriveled in the light of public scrutiny.  It's time
for the TPP to get the same treatment.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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Latest TPP leak shows systemic threat to software freedom Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-04-19 16:35 +0000
  Re: Latest TPP leak shows systemic threat to software freedom Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-04-19 15:47 -0300
    Re: Latest TPP leak shows systemic threat to software freedom Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2015-04-19 21:32 +0100

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