ACTA Call To Arms!
We’ve got an important update for you on ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement). Overnight, you helped turn ACTA from a forgotten international treaty to the center of the fight for a free and open internet. In October, Access raised the red flag on this dangerous international treaty. But with the downfall of SOPA and PIPA in the United States, the fight has now turned to defeating ACTA. And overnight, the petition went from 10,000 signatures to over 40,000 people from 138 countries!
ACTA has the potential to be worse than PIPA and SOPA, but the good news is we think we can help take ACTA down like we did PIPA and SOPA. While several countries have signed this treaty already, getting a NO vote in the European Parliament will totally dismantle ACTA and send it back to the drawing board. Get all your friends and family to sign the petition calling on the European Parliament to vote NO on ACTA. You can do this in three ways:
- Go to this page to make it easy to share: https://www.accessnow.org/page/share/just-say-no-to-acta
- Tweet this or post it on Facebook: #ACTA will destroy open Net. #EU may be only hope to kill rights-abusing treaty. Tell MEPs to vote NO on ACTA! http://bit.ly/pMQ5DQ
We need hundreds of thousands of signatures in order for our petition to be heard in the European Parliament, so we need your help to get this thing to go viral. People are rallying in the streets and spreading the word online: If you thought SOPA and PIPA were bad, let us introduce you to their Big Brother ACTA.
We’ve seen what happens when we rally together to take down ill-conceived legislation that threatens free speech and our privacy online. Now let’s spread the word and send ACTA to the dustbin of history.
