To be fair, it may have been Bono who first made the connection explicit, but others are beginning to notice that there are some worrisome parallels between what is being pushed via ACTA and other methods and ongoing internet censorship in China. The latest, as pointed out by the EFF, is writer Rebecca MacKinnon, who walks you through the way in which Chinese censorship is based on the same faulty principle as ACTA’s push for secondary liability for ISPs.
But this « intermediary liability » is a big deal, because under any common sense approach to things, you should never blame an third party/intermediary for the actions of end users. And yet, that’s exactly what the entertainment industry has been pushing. […]
[…] The more you look at the details, the more it looks like the entertainment industry is doing everything possible to encircle the internet to make it appear more like a broadcast entertainment medium, rather than a communications medium.
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