Censorship disguised as copyright protection legislation.

You seem to think this is about “struggling artists” and various other things…the main point is we do not know what is in this treaty, it could be about generic medicines, it could be about harassing consumers and 3 strikes, it could be about invading China, who know what’s in it? The text of the treaty is top secret see http://twitpic.com/8h9iju. How can any Parliament vote on a treaty that is totally blank? What exactly is the parliament voting for?
If the treaty is not about “this or that” wouldn’t it be wise to publish the text so that we can know?

And barely a word about it on RTE.

Crusties, students, rent-a-crowds…

As usual the people who are most effected by this, businessmen and women themselves, are absent because they’re struggling with the recession. No wonder politicians don’t take the internet seriously.

No pictures of the Dublin protest??

Big brother is watching you….

Funny thing is that the biggest protest were in Poland but that was not mentioned either. Few thousands of people came on the streets.

A lecturer from Oxford University has written a paper about this may contrave both the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the ECHR. This represents an opportunity to put the human rights infrastructure of the EU to the test. The lack of debate in Ireland underlines the political-elite’s subservience to the bureaucrats in Brussels. Particularly disturbing is that ACTA provides for surveillance not merely of suspected wrongdoers but also of “third parties”, and rather than requiring the consent of a judge for surveillance simply requires the consent of the “authorities”, without defining who they are. If this passes we are living in a police-state. Write to your politicians.

no pictures from the Dublin march on Saturday ?