TISA: Another Treaty You've Never Heard of Makes Secret Rules for Internet
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The White House wants almost unilateral power to enact extreme digital rules in secret.
1) Preventing national parliaments from acting in the best interests of their citizens seems like a bad idea.
2) Doing it all in secret seems like a very bad idea.
3) Allowing corporations to influence the rules while keeping citizens and the press in the dark seems like an extremely bad idea.
What is the counterargument from supporters of TISA, TPP, TTIP, et al? I've never heard a rationale for secrecy and short-circuiting the democratic process.
Have they even attempted to justify this?
1. All data transmitted in the clear (in practicality to them) 2. No use of software that can't have back doors put into it.
It might work once, and put off such laws until the next month or the next election, but those with the vested interest have the time, money, influence, and power to see these laws passed eventually.
The government is no longer concerned nor responsive to the common good.
The only real way to fight these laws are to ignore them and to repeatedly break then. To resist arrest and to challenge the status quo with trying to overplay their hand and oppresse people like the true tyrants they are.