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EFF says it's essential to let people hold opinions "without interference." It's vital they're able "to seek, receive and impart information." It's critically important to have policies that don't compromise personal freedoms or "impose liability on Internet intermediaries."
They're not judges and juries. They're service providers. They attract and keep customers by serving them responsibly. Making them corporate cops is unconscionable.
Giving private business power over sovereign nations means freedom's last breath has been drawn in countries agreeing to these oppressive rules.
EFF and similar organizations did heroic work beating SOPA and PIPA. They made many nations anti-ACTA. Plunging a dagger in TPP's heart is now essential. Ordinary people can do plenty to help.
When freedom is on the line, mass support must save it. There's still time, but it's running out fast. Learn the facts. Know the stakes. Tell others, and join a struggle too important to lose.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at Email address removed .
His new book is titled "How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War"
http://www.claritypress.com/Lendman.html
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