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galen  ·  3501 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Congressional Deal Reached on Fast-Track Authority for Obama on Trade Pact

This terrifies me. As of right now, according to various leaked sections, the TPP--which is being fast-tracked--will do the following:

- Force web hosts to remove content accused of violating copyright, without a court order, SOPA-style

- Punish internet users who share copyrighted material with "sentences of imprisonment as well as monetary fines sufficiently high to provide a deterrent to future acts of infringement."

- Impose criminal penalties for journalists and whistleblowers who share information with "commercial value"

- Allow foreign corporations to sue the US government over actions which they claim reduce profits. This opens the door for challenges to all manner of legislation; in order to justify such a challenge, a corporation would need only claim that a given law hurts their profits.