Polish Prime Minister calls for EU leaders to reject ACTA

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by marcin • 14 years ago

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hastur• 14 years ago

Wow, this is actually quite big. I'd say, more significant than the previous decision by Poland (and then other EU counties) to suspend ACTA ratification. Suspension meant merely that they needed to think more about this. Now Poland comes out openly _against_ ACTA, and that's a _first_ among the participants and signatories of the treaty.

Congrats to the participants of the anti-ACTA protests in Poland (possibly the biggest ACTA opposition in the world), who brought about this change.

zalew• 14 years ago

thanks to #anonymous for making a scene that led to recognizing this issue in our media.

kolinko4• 14 years ago

yeah, as much as I sometimes hate their juvenilish behaviour, this time it actually helped...

jwr• 14 years ago

A major politician admits he was wrong. This doesn't happen often, and in spite of Tusk's many flaws should be recognized. He deserves respect for being able to admit he was wrong.

ancymon2• 14 years ago

That's one way to look at the situation. Another is that the politician "changes" his mind to gain popularity.

wildmXranat2• 14 years ago

That sounds closer to the truth. Tusk, like other politicians has the first and foremost goal of getting re-elected.

Just look at Canada's safety minister Vic Toews back-pedal like a champ when he was called out after he compared any person criticising his proposed fascist spying bill to a 'child pornographer' supporter. It seems like there's an open season on moving the goal post when it comes to deteriorating publics right to privacy.

zeeed• 14 years ago

which is, in fact, fine with me. if we're enough people that are convinced and the politicians act like we want them to, then that's called democracy.

Polish Prime Minister calls for EU leaders to reject ACTA

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