As the debate in Europe over the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) heats up, a growing number of Europeans are protesting their governments for signing the treaty. Officials from 22 EU member states added their signatures to ACTA last month. It was finalized and signed by it's biggest backers, the US and Japan, last October.
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well i suppose they can sign all the petitions they want.its still done.to prevent something is one thing.to reverse whats already been done is quite another.
The part about Romania has a lot of bullshit in it. Read the article on 9 O'Clock (there is a link to it in this article).
The prime minister only said he doesn't have enough info on the subject (i.e. ACTA). Which is actually true, since he is only a puppet of the president and doesn't do much thinking on his own (maybe only when going to the toilet).
The opposition, at this moment, would say anything that might be even remotely beneficial to their image, due to the shaky political situation in the country and the chance that they might get the power soon.
The sad truth is, in Romania, none of the leaders give a shit about ACTA, nor could they understand it's dangers; not that there would be anyone competent in a sufficiently high position to inform them about them.
Also, most people have never heard of ACTA, and they have so many problems at the moment they wouldn't even care about some treaty about some silly little thing (the Internet) where their kids play games and watch videos. Not that ACTA is limited to affecting only the Internet, but it is how it is presented around the world to the layman.
So, given the current situation in the country I don't think we will see any Romanians taking anti-ACTA protests to the streets any time soon; the protests will stay on the Internet.
Quote:What may be the most interesting aspect of the anti-ACTA movement is that the most widespread and loudest opposition, as well as the most effective, isn't in the UK, France, or other countries traditionally considered strongholds of democracy and freedom.
That's because the UK and France et al, are NOT a democracy anymore.
