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Green Left Weekly December 2013

Published in Green Left Weekly, a publication described by the journalist John Pilger as 'the one newspaper that is independent of powerful interests' in Australia.

TPP's corporate power grab clearer, but opposition building

By Pete Dolack

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

"Monica Horten, a visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics writing on her Iptegrity.com website, summarizes the
TPP's dangers to the free flow of information: "[I]t is a toxic potion that would force the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to police their networks, and turns current law on its head ... "Where it concerns the Internet and digital content, much of the TPP intellectual property chapter looks like a
cut-and-paste from ACTA. Certainly, it brings in similar secondary liability and criminal measures that were in ACTA.{...} However, there are specific new proposals that give more reasons for concern ... Within the Internet section, is a USA/Australian proposal that contains the core desires of Hollywood and the Motion Picture Association."

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About Iptegrity

Iptegrity.com is the website of Dr Monica Horten, independent policy advisor: online safety, technology and human rights. Advocating to protect the rights of the majority of law abiding citizens online. Independent expert on the Council of Europe Committee of Experts on online safety and empowerment of content creators and users.  Published author, and post-doctoral scholar, with a PhD from the University of Westminster, and a DipM from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.  Former telecoms journalist,  experienced panelist and Chair, cited in the media eg  BBC, iNews, Times, Guardian and Politico.

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