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A new photo is doing the rounds on the Internet. It shows members of the Polish parliament holding print-outs of the notorious Guy Fawkes mask in front of their faces, homage to an unofficial symbol of the Anonymous cyber collective.
The reason: they’re protesting the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a treaty that seems to carry echoes of SOPA and Internet censorship.
Over at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, U.S. Congressman Darrell Issa has claimed ACTA is more dangerous than SOPA, largely because lawmakers like him can’t do anything to change it once enforced. “It’s not coming to me for a vote,” he said. “It purports that it does not change existing laws. But once implemented, it creates a whole new enforcement system and will virtually tie the hands of Congress to undo it.”
Tusk's backtracking could spell the end of ACTA for the entire European Union. If Poland or any other EU member state, or the European Parliament itself, fails to ratify the document, it becomes null and void across the union. As it stands, there are already five member countries that have not even signed ACTA.
Originally posted by wildtimes
This makes me smile....
my father's maternal family emigrated from 'Poland' -- they were displaced German Russians....
I applaud this show of integrity....from the bottom of my heart
If only the US Congress had the same stones.
*sigh*
Thanks for this little glimpse into leadership members who know what is right and stand by it.
Ours are such pathetic tools.
Shameful. I am ashamed.
Originally posted by Hellas
That is a few days old and has been posted a multiple times
Originally posted by YouAreLiedTo
Originally posted by Hellas
That is a few days old and has been posted a multiple times
Look at when this topic was posted. We know it's old news...
Welcome to two days ago.