With SOPA on Hold, Attention Turns to ACTA

Having at least temporarily convinced the US Congress to shelve the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), attention among anti-censorship activists is now turning squarely toward the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), an international compact with many similar provisions.

And where Hollywood trade groups aroused enough public ire to keep SOPA from happening, ACTA threatens to be a far more dangerous proposition, with President Obama using an executive order to give it de facto approval in the United States and bypassing Congress entirely. It may still be a battle internationally, but for Americans just hearing about it, it is a fait accompli.

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Author: Jason Ditz

Jason Ditz is Senior Editor for Antiwar.com. He has 20 years of experience in foreign policy research and his work has appeared in The American Conservative, Responsible Statecraft, Forbes, Toronto Star, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Providence Journal, Washington Times, and the Detroit Free Press.