[Chapter-delegates] EFF says that there are ongoing Secret negotiations to regulate the Internet

[Sivasubramanian Muthusamy]

Secret Negotiations for a Trans Pacific Partnership ???


Sivasubramanian M


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From: Maira Sutton | EFF International Team <action at eff.org>
Date: Sat, May 12, 2012 at 5:34 AM
Subject: Secret negotiations to regulate the Internet
To: isocindiachennai at gmail.com


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Dear Friend of Digital Freedom,

This week in Dallas, trade representatives are secretly negotiating new
regulations for the Internet – including intellectual property provisions
that could *choke off online speech*. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
Agreement may be even worse than ACTA; it could tie the hands of
democratically-elected legislators and create new, international standards
for intellectual property enforcement. Worst of all, Internet users and
free expression advocates like EFF aren’t allowed in the room and are
forbidden from seeing the negotiated text.

*Click here<https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8229>to
join EFF in demanding a Congressional hearing so lawmakers can learn
what’s in the TPP and hear from all affected stakeholders, not just
deep-pocketed industry representatives.*

U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk claims they have made “extraordinary
efforts” to include public stakeholders in negotiations, but this couldn’t
be further from the truth. Like ACTA, negotiations have actively excluded
civil society and the public, while welcoming private industry
representatives with open arms.

EFF’s International IP Director Gwen Hinze traveled to Dallas to demand
transparency, but *she wasn’t allowed to see the draft text or be present
for the negotiations*. Here's how Gwen described the tactics the USTR is
using to shut Internet users out from the negotiations:

 Unlike previous negotiation rounds, there will be no official forum for
stakeholders to present their views to the assembled TPP country
negotiators. Instead, stakeholders are being asked to register their
interest in sponsoring a table to provide negotiators who might so happen
to stroll past with information on particular topics.

 The public should be front and center in these negotiations, not relegated
to a table outside.

Join EFF in calling on Congress for more transparency in TPP. Negotiators
can't just shut out the public and their elected representatives.

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Defending your digital rights,

Maira Sutton
International Team
Electronic Frontier Foundation

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