WHY IS THAT SO LOW?!
When ACTA passes next week ALL people from the EU will have monitoring internet!
So please signs the petition even if you’re not from the EU!
http://www.petitiononline.com/stopacta/petition.html
I’M BEGGING YOU TO AT LEAST REBLOG THIS. MAKE PEOPLE AWARE.
Signed!
((Signed))
damn, it’s at 10,000+ now!
I WONT STOP REBLOGGING THIS EVERYTIME IT COMES ON MY DASH
To put it another way, if you’re not in Europe then Think of how much British television you will miss out on if this passes.
We’re not in the EU, but I’ll sign it.
it’s kind of hilarious (by which i mean depressing) that i’ve seen more people from the EU make a lot of noise about SOPA than about this.
Yeah, because it’s only the strange money-worshipping Americans who could possibly think up restrictive, intrusive legislation at large corporations’ behest. There can’t be anything amiss in OUR political back rooms.
wait wtf is this
What Neeta said.
In fairness, this is largely because ACTA has been kept behind closed doors until recently.
It’s also fairly incorrect to compare the EU and the US. The EU is an ostensibly economic union, pandering to industry more or less their stated goal. Comparing it to NAFTA would be far more accurate.
Tried to sign, site doesn’t seem to be working. Maybe it’ll work for some of my followers, though!
BUT
This is probably important, and something that, as someone who lives with a former government minister, I probably have more insight into than most:
Internet petitions aren’t worth shit. They’re far too easy to ignore. If you want to stop this, you need to write to your local MP/TD/other langauges. It’s far better to send an email than to sign an internet petition, far better to write your own than send a form email (also hardly worth bothering with), far better to send a physical letter than to send an email, better to hand write the letter than to type it (seriously!), better to phone than write.
This is all stuff that I’ve been told by a former junior minister who genuinely cared about his constituents. Internet petitions and mass emails that all say the same thing are much too easy to ignore, when a politician is busy with a thousand other issues people are trying to bring to their attention. If you write them an individual letter, they will have to respond - even if it’s just their secretary sending out the ‘thank you for bringing this issue to my attention’ email. Part of that secretary’s job is to make sure the MP is aware if a whole lot of people suddenly start contacting them about an issue. And if you phone them, they have to talk to you.
Other countries might not have quite the level of constituency engagement that British and Irish MPs/TDs do, but it is still their job to listen to you. It really is worth taking the extra time to contact them in a more noticeable way.
(Source: lovetilldead)
