 Mickey Mouse protection, the TPP and why America remains unequal: Don Pittis Former U.S. labour secretary Robert Reich says U.S capitalism is broken, and the only way to save it is for the American public to wrestle back control. But Don Pittis fears agreements like the TPP show the opposite is happening.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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TPP always sounds like asswipe to me,
Most of it would be only used as that. Details are pretty sketchy, but some of the 'human rights' provisions will be ignored by countries like Malaysia and Brunei.
Much of the leaked content I've read like to use the word 'consumer' a lot, but I don't recall ever seeing the word 'citizen'. I have much doubt that this deal will be at all good for us. Harper pledging $4B for dairy farmers and $1B for the auto sector makes me thing he does as well.
The main thing to be concerned about are pharmaceuticals. Apparently Big Pharma played a big role in this agreement, and protections for it have been increase. Drug prices will skyrocket, especially in the poorer countries, but we'll feel the impact too. No more American seniors coming to Canada to buy their drugs.
Among others. Leaked drafts I've read pretty much were drafted by the pharma companies, and I'll be it wasn't to the benefit of sick people.
The Volkswagen scandal happened partially because of the US 1998 "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" that made it illegal to reverse engineer computers - even ones that you own. So manufacturers can do all sorts of things, like put trouble codes in that only they can decipher, forcing you to bring it to the dealership and pay what they tell you to pay to fix it. That led to the US forcing manufacturers to publish these codes, so that the 'average' owner or mechanic can access them and diagnose problems.
From the leaked versions of the Copyright sections of the TPP, I don't think the DMCA provisions are weakened, if anything they are stronger. The provisions that the Harper government backed away from because of public opinion, seem to all be in there with steroids. All of the provisions of the also appear to be included. Little things, like seizing your cellphone at the border, and removing digital locks on music that you've paid for.