[x-pubpol] Which Congresscritters want to sell out the America's laws to offshore copyright giants?

[Joly MacFie]

http://boingboing.net/2013/08/16/which-congresscritters-want-to.html


Since the Bush administration, successive US Trade Representatives have
favored secret treaties, made outside of the UN, without any public
scrutiny or accountability. Treaties like ACTA and the Trans-Pacific
Partnership introduce brutal regimes of surveillance, censorship,
criminalization, and control in the name of preventing copyright
infringement. Only one problem: even if the USTR signs up to the agreement,
Congress still has to approve it.

But not for long. A clutch of rogue Congresscritters have introduced
legislation that would let the president unilaterally sign the US up to
trade agreements that would require changes to US law, without any
oversight or debate from America's lawmakers. The Electronic Frontier
Foundation's Maira Sutton has named-and-shamed the
lawmakers<https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/stop-fast-track>
who're
rushing to abandon their duty and hand unchecked power over to the
administrative branch. They're heavily funded by the entertainment
industry, and publicly committed to undermining democratic, transparent
process in favor of back-room deals brokered in the service of
multinational corporations. Read on to learn their names, then visitEFF's
action center<https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=9357>
to
find out how you can fight the undemocratic "Trade Promotion Authority."

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