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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHundreds of tech companies line up to oppose TPP trade agreement
Hundreds of tech companies line up to oppose TPP trade agreement
Sam Thielman in New York - Wednesday 20 May 2015
More than 250 tech companies have signed a letter demanding greater transparency from Congress and decrying the broad regulatory language in leaked parts of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade bill.
The TPP would create an environment hostile to journalists and whistleblowers, said policy directors for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Fight for the Future, co-authors of the letter. TPPs trade secrets provisions could make it a crime for people to reveal corporate wrongdoing through a computer system, says the letter. The language is dangerously vague, and enables signatory countries to enact rules that would ban reporting on timely, critical issues affecting the public.
Among the signatories are activist, sci-fi author and Guardian tech columnist Cory Doctorow. Democracies make their laws in public, not in smoke-filled rooms, Doctorow wrote. If TPPs backers truly believed that they were doing the peoples work, theyd have invited the people into the room. The fact that they went to extreme, unprecedented measures to stop anyone from finding out what was going on even going so far as to threaten Congress with jail if they spoke about it tells you that this is something being done *to* Americans, not *for* Americans.
Also on the list were prominent members of the open source community, including David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework, image hosting company Imgur and domain name manager Namecheap.
There was a notable absence from the letter of big, international tech companies like Apple, Google and Facebook. Apple and AT&T are part of the presidents International Trade Advisory Committee (which advises the Oval Office on matters relating to industry) and their representatives have presumably been able to read sections of the bill that would apply to their industry.
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Read More:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/20/hundreds-tech-companies-oppose-tpp-trade-agreement
Sam Thielman in New York - Wednesday 20 May 2015
More than 250 tech companies have signed a letter demanding greater transparency from Congress and decrying the broad regulatory language in leaked parts of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership trade bill.
The TPP would create an environment hostile to journalists and whistleblowers, said policy directors for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Fight for the Future, co-authors of the letter. TPPs trade secrets provisions could make it a crime for people to reveal corporate wrongdoing through a computer system, says the letter. The language is dangerously vague, and enables signatory countries to enact rules that would ban reporting on timely, critical issues affecting the public.
Among the signatories are activist, sci-fi author and Guardian tech columnist Cory Doctorow. Democracies make their laws in public, not in smoke-filled rooms, Doctorow wrote. If TPPs backers truly believed that they were doing the peoples work, theyd have invited the people into the room. The fact that they went to extreme, unprecedented measures to stop anyone from finding out what was going on even going so far as to threaten Congress with jail if they spoke about it tells you that this is something being done *to* Americans, not *for* Americans.
Also on the list were prominent members of the open source community, including David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework, image hosting company Imgur and domain name manager Namecheap.
There was a notable absence from the letter of big, international tech companies like Apple, Google and Facebook. Apple and AT&T are part of the presidents International Trade Advisory Committee (which advises the Oval Office on matters relating to industry) and their representatives have presumably been able to read sections of the bill that would apply to their industry.
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Read More:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/20/hundreds-tech-companies-oppose-tpp-trade-agreement
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Hundreds of tech companies line up to oppose TPP trade agreement (Original Post)
think
May 2015
OP
Increase THOSE exports yes they most likely will. Well, at least they've built in a safety net
think
May 2015
#2
I posted same thing about 2 minutes after you. Deleted, moved to other forums.
madfloridian
May 2015
#3
arcane1
(38,613 posts)1. Apple wants to increase those made-in-China "exports" n/t
think
(11,641 posts)2. Increase THOSE exports yes they most likely will. Well, at least they've built in a safety net
madfloridian
(88,117 posts)3. I posted same thing about 2 minutes after you. Deleted, moved to other forums.
I reposted mine in the Bernie Sanders forum and the Populist Reform forum.
I had done a search, but we must have posted about the same time.
think
(11,641 posts)4. It's all good. How very polite of you. Thanks for posting this in the other forums.