This kind of thing is the worst - a key weakness in the Constitution is that treaties are the supreme laws of the land. Any further secret industrialist/globalist stunts like this will work like 'ratchets' to claw away sovereignty permanently.

And best of all in this case, to a transnational authoritarian nest of weasels.

There are a lot of people on this site sympathetic to transnational authority structures. Somehow everyone fails to realize how these structures are always captured by mindless corporatists every single time. The ONLY good thing to come out of the EU so far is the Swedish Pirate Party captured a European Parliament seat. Please read the Neo-ConOpticon report on new EU transnational security structures. The administration of complete surveillance for copyright & symbol righteousness enforcement is gonna be run by the same transnational security corporations. See also some stuff on Wikileaks in recent weaks about pouncing & sifting thru copyright violators thru surveillance en masse.

The EU is a criminal complex; its new president was installed by fiat of a stupid treaty confirmed by dubious elections. More evil treaties and machinations are coming for the United States, all hatched in attempted secrecy that fortunately, for now, can still leach out over Internets.

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The Democratic Party, not the freedom we enjoy on the internet. The Democrats parrot net neutrality rhetoric and then turn around and endorse "throttling," as mentioned in the article.

But better yet, we now see ACTA coming to fruition. I read about this and figured there were very good people following it who would let us know when the time came. Well, it's here.

I knew that The Money Party boys would have some trick up their sleeves to shut down all dissent. That is their goal. Who would demonstrate after local police and federal authorities deploy SWAT teams, tazers and so forth to routinely beat down folks for simply showing up to demonstrate. Now, the sequel, the kill shot, make everyone on the internet a criminal - forget fair use, this trumps that bit if free speech. Make it so nobody wants to run a web site because to do so means being a cop and to fail at that role means a charge from the copyright scum lords.

Here's the good news. Screwing with the internet is the new third rail of U.S. politics. This is the one medium where people feel free to dissent and where they can do so effectively.

The fools behind this have sowed the wind, now they're going to get their clock cleaned in ways that will stun them -- boycotts, new legislation barring any more of this, alternatives to the media giants behind this, campaigns to disconnect all local service to the Telco's, etc. etc. It's all pretty easy stuff to do ON THE INTERNET and once started, it won't even begin to slow down until many of the business behind this are in ruins.

Something like this was destined to happen. The palpable greed and hypocrisy of the bipartisan coalition of crooks who rule this country will be on open display - digitally - all over the world.