{"id":145321,"date":"2015-04-01T17:01:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T17:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=145321"},"modified":"2015-04-01T17:01:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T17:01:46","slug":"meet-the-man-who-can-stop-the-tpps-internet-censorship-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/meet-the-man-who-can-stop-the-tpps-internet-censorship-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the man who can stop the TPP\u2019s Internet censorship plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Sali<\/p>\n<p>A huge <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tpp-investment\/\">leak<\/a> just revealed that the TPP would establish a secretive, shadowy international <a href=\"https:\/\/wikileaks.org\/tpp-investment\/\">court<\/a>\u00a0that could be used by Big Media giants to kick Internet users around the world offline.<\/p>\n<p>To make this nightmare a reality, anti-Internet lobbyists are pushing harder than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/tech\/the-future-of-broadband\/buoyed-by-net-neutrality-win-internet-activists-prepare-next-campaign-20150301\">ever<\/a> to \u201cfast track\u201d the TPP. If they succeed, the Internet you love will be policed and censored for generations.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s hope. Groups fighting this plan have found <a href=\"https:\/\/stopthesecrecy.net\/?src=blg\">the one person who can stop it<\/a>. <strong>Meet U.S. Senator Ron Wyden and tell him right now: <a href=\"https:\/\/stopthesecrecy.net\/?src=blg\">Do not Fast Track Internet censorship<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a senior member of a crucial Senate Committee, Wyden <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/congress\/item\/20330-sen-wyden-is-key-democrat-in-tpp-tpa-fast-track-trade-fight\">controls the fate of the TPP<\/a> \u2014 and we know he\u2019s feeling pressure from our side. In fact, our friends at Fight For the Future have been <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/03\/17\/following-the-key-trans-pacifi.html\">following him with a blimp<\/a> for the past week, and he recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/mapes\/index.ssf\/2015\/03\/ron_wyden_avoids_anti-trade_pa.html\">bailed on his own fundraiser<\/a> out of fear of Internet advocates<\/p>\n<p>His path forward has been made clear, but reports suggest he could cave to lobbyists at any moment. <strong>Until he is 100% committed to doing the right thing, we must keep the pressure on.<\/strong> And to do <em>that<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/stopthesecrecy.net\/?src=blg\">we must raise a loud global call together<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell Wyden now: The world is watching. <a href=\"https:\/\/stopthesecrecy.net\/?src=blg\">Do not make the world\u2019s Internet more expensive, censored, and policed<\/a>. Do not fast track this reckless Internet censorship plan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The TPP affects too many people around the world to be decided in secret. It cannot be rammed through without scrutiny and debate. And we <em>especially<\/em> cannot let such matters be decided through a shadowy international court.<\/p>\n<p>This is why we need you to join <a href=\"https:\/\/stopthesecrecy.net\/?src=blg\">a loud global call<\/a> to convince the one man who can stop the TPP\u2019s Internet censorship plan. <a href=\"https:\/\/stopthesecrecy.net\/?src=blg\">Can we count you in?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthesecrecy.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/openmedia.ca\/sites\/openmedia.ca\/files\/imce\/AI_Wyden.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghan Sali A huge leak just revealed that the TPP would establish a secretive, shadowy international court\u00a0that could be used by Big Media giants to kick Internet users around the world offline. To make this nightmare a reality, anti-Internet lobbyists are pushing harder than ever to \u201cfast track\u201d the TPP. If they succeed, the Internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-145321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-sicence-technology","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}