Trans Pacific Partnership

[L.Y.S.]

I've heard several things about the TPP. It supposedly corrodes internet freedoms, enables large businesses to wage legal battles against countries that refuse to sale their products, and strips a number of "critical rights". I say "critical rights", but I haven't found very much on the TPP yet. I hear so many bad things about the TPP. What is really so bad about it? Are my opening statements about the treaty true?

 

[Corsair 115]

It's just another attempt at a free trade agreement, though with this one it involves several countries at once. With numerous competing national interests, it seems unlikely an agreement acceptable to all parties will be found quickly.

Here is the home page for the TPP on the site of the Office of the United States Trade Representative web site. Links to information on the TPP can be found on the right side.

 

[Dr. Keith]

I've been to some informational meetings on this and I have to say that if this is the embodiment of evil, evil has become quite boring.

Think of it as NAFTA for the Pacific Rim. It isn't, exactly, but it's closer to that than it is to what you mention in your OP.

 

[blutoski]

I've been to some informational meetings on this and I have to say that if this is the embodiment of evil, evil has become quite boring.

Think of it as NAFTA for the Pacific Rim. It isn't, exactly, but it's closer to that than it is to what you mention in your OP.

I always thought APEC was trying to become NAFTA for the Pacific rim.

 

[L.Y.S.]

Seems that teapartyers and conservatives are having a field day with the TPP. I was listening to a liberal daytime radio host, and even he was outraged with the TPP. I failed to completely listen to his rant because I turned to my favorite rap station to listen to Future's new song, Honest. At any rate, I'll have to investigate further and see why people are getting so pissy over the TPP. Clearly there are some deficits to the TPP.

 

[KoihimeNakamura]

It's mostly the IP chapter, at least, that appears to be EFFs major objection.

 

[Puppycow]

It's mostly the IP chapter, at least, that appears to be EFFs major objection.

Something about not allowing people to jailbreak a mobile phone I hear.

That's already the law in the US last I heard, and I guess the US wants to make other countries abide by that too.

 

[KoihimeNakamura]

Something about not allowing people to jailbreak a mobile phone I hear.

That's already the law in the US last I heard, and I guess the US wants to make other countries abide by that too.

Bit more than that. I should dig up the link

 

[L.Y.S.]

Bit more than that. I should dig up the link

Please do

 

[KoihimeNakamura]

Here is the EFF's take on it:
https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

 

[Kid Eager]

From an Australian perspective, one of the things the public but not the government objects to is removal of the ISP "safe harbour" provisions. iiNet won a court case brought against it by a media organisation, and it created a precedent that the government will conveniently supersede by supporting removal of that precedent under the guise of the TPP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadshow_Films_v_iiNet