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Didn't see a thread for this so I'm making one. So wikileaks just released secret documents regarding the negotiation of the Trade In Services Agreement treaty, available here: https://wikileaks.org/tisa/ quote:WikiLeaks releases today 17 secret documents from the ongoing TISA (Trade In Services Agreement) negotiations which cover the United States, the European Union and 23 other countries including Turkey, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Pakistan, Taiwan & Israel -- which together comprise two-thirds of global GDP. "Services" now account for nearly 80 per cent of the US and EU economies and even in developing countries like Pakistan account for 53 per cent of the economy. While the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has become well known in recent months in the United States, the TISA is the larger component of the strategic TPP-TISA-TTIP 'T-treaty trinity'. All parts of the trinity notably exclude the 'BRICS' countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Ars technica has a good article up on it: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/wikileaks-releases-secret-tisa-docs-the-more-evil-sibling-of-ttip-and-tpp/
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Probably a dumb question, but I wonder how the US government hasn't managed to shut down Wikileaks yet. E: yes, Assange is under the protection of Ecuador, but I don't see why he can't be cut off from sources. America Inc. fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Jun 5, 2015 |
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Jun 5, 2015 01:15
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It's not like anything they have revealed has actually hurt the US government, and everyone has already forgotten about the stuff they revealed anyways.
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Jun 5, 2015 01:33
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Booourns posted:everyone has already forgotten about the stuff they revealed anyways.
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Jun 5, 2015 02:50
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Wikiwho?
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LookingGodIntheEye posted:Probably a dumb question, but I wonder how the US government hasn't managed to shut down Wikileaks yet.
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Jun 5, 2015 03:13
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Rorus Raz posted:I thought he left Wikileaks some years ago, and that they were all too eager to distant themselves from him after the rape charges. Yeah, and even when he was there, it's not like he was the guy who got all the leaks himself.
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Jun 21, 2015 16:38
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So if TPA is passed the President could be presenting TPP, TTIP, and TISA for a yes/no vote in Congress?
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Jun 21, 2015 16:45
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McDowell posted:So if TPA is passed the President could be presenting TPP, TTIP, and TISA for a yes/no vote in Congress? Yes, but again it would be with the treaties being made public in full before they're to be voted upon.
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Jun 21, 2015 17:10
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McDowell posted:So if TPA is passed the President could be presenting TPP, TTIP, and TISA for a yes/no vote in Congress? Don't forget the TITS.
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Jun 21, 2015 17:20
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tekz posted:
This part doesn't make sense: quote:Article 6 of the leaked text seems to ban any country from using free software mandates: "No Party may require the transfer of, or access to, source code of software owned by a person of another Party, as a condition of providing services related to such software in its territory." The text goes on to specify that this only applies to "mass-market software," and does not apply to software used for critical infrastructure. Yes, in theory it can prevent a European law from requiring open source software, but that's if the law is written as "you shall not use any software except ones designated open source", instead of "You shall use software X, Y, and Z, which also happen to be open source". The latter is how any sane policy would be written because open source is a catch-all term for a bunch of stuff that doesn't talk to each other that well.
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There was a thread where everyone had strong opinions about this not yet existing treaty already.
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