[pp.int.general] MPAA: ACTA's censoring firewalls will help governments avoid Wikileaks embarrassments

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BWO: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/21/mpaa-actas-censoring.html

MPAA: ACTA's censoring firewalls will help governments avoid Wikileaks
embarrassments

Cory Doctorow at 9:05 PM Tuesday, Sep 21, 2010

The MPAA has updated one of its more ridiculous pro-censorship
arguments; five years ago, they were telling lawmakers that blocking
P2P would help block child pornography. Now they've presented at an
information meeting in Mexico on ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
Agreement, a secret, far-reaching copyright treaty that contains
provisions for China-style censoring firewalls for every country. The
MPAA wants these national firewalls to block sites like The Pirate
Bay, but the case they've made to lawmakers for it is: "Bring in a
censoring firewall to block piracy and you can use it to shut off
sites that embarrass your government, like Wikileaks."

You can almost imagine the MPAA rep dry-washing his hands and licking
his lips like a grand vizier manipulating a gullible sultan as he
utters these words. During the Bush years, the MPAA recruited a bunch
of Republican stalwart, ultra-conservative foot-soldiers (one of them
told me that he believed in the Young Earth and Creationism). I can
imagine that if you're one of these square-jawed rock-ribbed types,
you could believe that the government had the right to cover up murder
and torture by blocking Wikileaks.

  In an open information meeting at the Ministry of the Economy in
  Mexico about ACTA last week. There were two oddities that they
  called attention to. The first is that there was an MPAA
  representative at the meeting, who apparently asked whether or not
  ACTA could be used to block access to "damaging" sites like
  Wikileaks. As the Open Acta Mexico people asked, what does Wikileaks
  have to do with movies? It seems like an interesting question,
  though, and I'm assuming that the MPAA is using Wikileaks as an
  example of a site they deem "dangerous" to get the idea across, so
  that later when they designate other sites (say... The Pirate
  Bay....) as dangerous, they can use this to make the case it should
  be blocked. Nice to see the MPAA is so blatant about using copyright
  for censorship...

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100915/10324411026/mpaa-wants-to-know-if-acta-can-be-used-to-block-wikileaks.shtml


and lemme add some thoughts about Mexico right now: i rly understand
why they fear leaks, just looking at what's in the day light of San
Juan - http://ignominy.soup.io

ciao

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