ACTA predates SOPA/PIPA (I think, not sure when the latter appeared) and is indeed worse than it due to its much wider scope and international nature.
Explained simply here:
And yes, Obama signed it a while ago.
The EU signed it yesterday, but it isn't yet ratified, and the rapporteur (Kader Arif, french EU deputy, socialist) charged with drafting the final version of the text quit in protest shortly after the signing.
His reasons:
Originally Posted by Kader ArifOriginally Posted by My hasty translation
Man that guy has an annoying lispy accent.
Do Brits really pronounce "patents" "PAYtents"?
No? If anything, I'd associate that with an american accent mostly. Usually, I hear brits say "pahtents" (they say it frequently on Dragon's Den).
But anyway, that guy is french, I think.
By the way:
Nah bro, the queer brits are hitting that PAY pretty hard.
http://www.forvo.com/word/patent/
There is only one acceptable reference for the correct british pronunciation and accent: Jeremy Clarkson. So, until you have him saying "patent", I'll not be convinced!
Have we been shutdown yet?
I find it so hilarious that the reason why Obama even got elected was because he got all the all the cool hipster college kids vote that mindlessly jumped on the bandwagon of "change" and now they look retarded that he put his e.dick into the internet.
How's that working for ya? I'm so glad I decided not to vote because all candidates at the time were retarded.
Listen Fucktard, there are many reasons Obama was elected (honestly who with half a brain could vote republican after the last 8 years of bush?) Obama's detractors ( the people who didn't vote for him) need to stop trying to explain why other people did vote for him. Not voting does not make you look intelligent, it makes you look apathetic. Not voting says nothing, if you don't care for the republican or the democratic candidate, pick someone else. That at least shows that you want someone else, it voices discontent. Again, not voting doesn't say a god damn thing. So you keep sitting on your couch and telling everyone else how you're above it all. You're worse than the people that don't follow politics at all.
First off, I need to get this out of the way.
Fuck any fucking douchebag who protests in those stupid fucking Guy Fawkes/V masks... Fuck them.
Secondly, Obama, I am disappoint.
Thirdly, and most importantly... fuck China.
I wonder if the URL http://www.fuckchina.com is taken.
I don't mind the Chinese. I find the Chinese to be generally pleasant, affable people. But fuck China.
Actually not voting represents a vote of no confidence, it represents that you as a voting citizen of a democratic republic believe the government and its political system to be so inept, so corrupt, so beyond redemption and so out of touch with the values that represent the Constitution of your nation that you won't even dignify their charade with a vote.
Believing otherwise, republican or democrat, is the real tragedy. It is real apathy; to be so against one thing you will vote to oppose it regardless of whether it in itself represents democracy. It is a lack of caring about what your country was meant to represent, and the belief that some things "are just the way they are". I don't think that was the course of action men like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington proposed, and I don't think they cast their votes for Governors "hoping" something would change.
First 11 minutes are explaining and talking about ACTA: http://twit.tv/show/tech-news-today/424
I hope to god liking Bernie Sanders doesn't become like a larval form of internet ron paul guy. Also thread title needs "3 months ago" tacked on.