Monthly Archives: October 2010

The latest news comes that the secret, undemocratic negotiations of ACTA parties has come to a final version. While Wired quotes the plan now as just toothless and watered-down, it still misses the major points that ACTA has been undemocratically developed and also with this last version will undemocratically enforce a fundamentally irrelevant regulatory regime, that would put an end to Net neutrality. It still goes for 3 strikes your out [read the text critical]. It is not a matter of a few bad apples in an odd-created document. No, this is simply still an attempted first (foundation) plan, which directly will harm society.

ACTA should be buried. For sustainable and rightful policy in the EU the issues involved should be considered, following all those vital steps and rules which ACTA for wrong reasons has tried to avoid:
Going through the European parliament, transparancy, respect net neutrality, unbiased regulators and fact checkers, due process (legal rights), respecting privacy and so on.. Play by the rules and put your bloody own citizens common interest first, EU. See also earlier posts.

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