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Author Topic: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA  (Read 43829 times)

Loud Whispers

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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #30 on: January 28, 2012, 02:32:18 pm »
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #31 on: January 28, 2012, 02:39:12 pm »
Quote from: Loud Whispers on January 28, 2012, 02:32:18 pm
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...sigh. Please tell me I'm wrong.

Nope

It's worse :C

You mean the part where the figurehead of the organization most responsible for bringing ACTA to the world's attention has been under severe legal attack for the last couple years and labeled a terrorist by many high profile political figures, and while Obama denied Freedom of Information Act requests to reveal ACTA to the public for years because it would pose a threat to national security?
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #32 on: January 28, 2012, 02:47:50 pm »
Quote from: SalmonGod on January 28, 2012, 02:39:12 pm
You mean the part where the figurehead of the organization most responsible for bringing ACTA to the world's attention has been under severe legal attack for the last couple years and labeled a terrorist by many high profile political figures, and while Obama denied Freedom of Information Act requests to reveal ACTA to the public for years because it would pose a threat to national security?

"...If such information be against public interest."

That, and the abuse of human rights, the DMCA, border control, civil enforcement, arresting of legal demonstrators, signing by diplomats and not democratically elected leaders? Well, there's even worse still  >:(
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #33 on: January 28, 2012, 02:51:46 pm »
Was a bit curious and did a Youtube search to see what Jesse Ventura may have dug up about all this.

Came across this: link

From what it looks like, all this internet censorship stuff is neither the first, nor last step of enslaving the world.

In an ideal world, I would very much rather have this guy running, or at least regulating, our country, or at least, it's operators.
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #34 on: January 28, 2012, 03:58:47 pm »
I had an enlightening discussion a while back with my cousin on SOPA (shortly before it died in congress). His thoughts on the subject were somewhere along these lines:

"The internet is just used for piracy! Don't you think artists should be compensated for their work? And those people in the comments sections and forums are soooo annoying! It's too complicated now, we should just go back to how it was before the internet and cellphones."

This may or may not reflect the general public's knowledge of and attitude toward the situation. I'm not sure anymore.
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #35 on: January 28, 2012, 04:04:16 pm »
Right.  So it's time for citizens of the internet to band together and journey into space, leaving the rest of the world behind forever.
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #36 on: January 28, 2012, 04:05:41 pm »
Quote from: Gatleos on January 28, 2012, 03:58:47 pm
This may or may not reflect the general public's knowledge of and attitude toward the situation. I'm not sure anymore.

This is the general view of the internet by the general world. It's quite disheartening. Wouldn't be the first time you'd be accused of having a political agenda for telling people about ACTA :/

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Right.  So it's time for citizens of the internet to band together and journey into space, leaving the rest of the world behind forever.

Got a massive autonomous space ship? :S
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #37 on: January 28, 2012, 04:10:15 pm »
Quote from: SalmonGod on January 28, 2012, 04:04:16 pm
Right.  So it's time for citizens of the internet to band together and journey into space, leaving the rest of the world behind forever.
Hey, that wouldn't be a bad idea, really. Let's go to Mars and laugh while Earth destroys itself!

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Got a massive autonomous space ship? :S
Obviously all we need to do is to get Toady to think up a ship with his mere mind and we'll have a ship instantly.
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #38 on: January 28, 2012, 04:11:06 pm »
Quote from: Loud Whispers on January 28, 2012, 04:05:41 pm
Got a massive autonomous space ship? :S

It's a megaproject.  Starting now.  We have a year before the humans send their first siege.
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #39 on: January 28, 2012, 04:12:05 pm »
Somehow I don't really want to go in a ship made of microcline in the shape of ASCII text.
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #40 on: January 28, 2012, 04:12:19 pm »
There already is one, but it's meant for the republicans to get back home once they are done screwing up the Earth.
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #41 on: January 28, 2012, 04:14:19 pm »
Quote from: SalmonGod on January 28, 2012, 04:11:06 pm
Quote from: Loud Whispers on January 28, 2012, 04:05:41 pm
Got a massive autonomous space ship? :S

It's a megaproject.  Starting now.  We have a year before the humans send their first siege.
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #42 on: January 28, 2012, 04:14:30 pm »
Quote from: kaijyuu on January 28, 2012, 04:12:05 pm
Somehow I don't really want to go in a ship made of microcline in the shape of ASCII text.
Heretic! Elf! Coward! :P

Quote from: Darvi on January 28, 2012, 04:12:19 pm
There already is one, but it's meant for the republicans to get back home once they are done screwing up the Earth.
So you're saying Republicans are Martians?
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #43 on: January 28, 2012, 04:15:37 pm »
You saying they're not?

More accurately, some sort of amphibious lifeforms. I mean, come on! Newt Gingrich?
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Re: We're too late, Obama signed ACTA
« Reply #44 on: January 28, 2012, 04:16:24 pm »
Quote from: Tarran on January 28, 2012, 04:14:30 pm
Quote from: kaijyuu on January 28, 2012, 04:12:05 pm
Somehow I don't really want to go in a ship made of microcline in the shape of ASCII text.
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Excuuuuse me, princess, but I want my ship to be adamantine and powered by the screams of the damned.
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