Also, the legal language is deliberately convoluted – the United States wants to give Hollywood the right to shut people off from the internet (and therefore most of their citizens‘ rights) without due process, but this is hidden deep down in legal jumbo. How many would recognize the terms „injunctive relief“ or „liability conditions“ as depriving citizens of their freedoms of speech, press, and assembly? I fear many people would be shocked once they realized what the legal language means – but at that point, it will be much harder to stop this idiocy.

This agreement is not about free trade. Copyright and patent monopolies, by definition, are the opposite of free trade; they are exclusive rights preventing free trade. This agreement is about asserting trade monopolies held by the United States and forcing everybody else to pay protection money or go to jail for disrespecting the powers that be.

This is not free trade. This is racketeering. And it is disgusting.