Two US senators demand that secret copyright treaty be published
By Paul Biba
As you may have heard, the US, in a fit of Governmental insanity, is negotiating a new copyright treaty that allows for criminal action to be taken against copyright infringers and gives governments broad powers to require ISPs to spy on their users. The insane thing is that the text of the treaty and its basic terms and conditions are not being released due to “national security”.
Now two senators, Bernie Sanders and Sherrod Brown have protested this saying, according to Boing Boing:
We are surprised and unpersuaded by assertions that disclosures of basic information about the negotiation would present a risk to the national security of the United States, particularly as regards documents that are shared with all countries in the negotiations, and with dozens of representatives of large corporations. We are concerned that the secrecy of such information reflects a desire to avoid potential criticism of substantive provisions in ACTA by the public, the group who will be most affected by the agreement. … We firmly believe that the public has a right to know the contents of the proposals being considered under ACTA, just as they have the right to read the text of bills pending before Congress.
Way to go guys!
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