ACTA Anger: Polish protests grow into anti-govt rage

Protests are raging on in Warsaw against the signing of a new treaty, which enforces intellectual property rights on the internet. Opponents say the international ACTA document is pure censorship, and a violation of human rights.

On Friday, the European Parliament's rapporteur for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement resigned in protest. Kader Arif said drafting of the controversial anti-piracy treaty was accompanied by "never-before-seen manoeuvres" by officials.

In Warsaw, extremely cold weather was definitely not an excuse for demonstrators. Friday's protest culminated a week of mass rallies in Poland. Thursday's signing of the deal by Warsaw drew tens of thousands onto the streets across the country to protest internet censorship.

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[ArmageddonINclouds]

YO EUROPE! LET'S FUCK ACTA TOGETHER!

[tassiemiec]

Today Polish Government reject ACTA :)

[Pete Jones]

I see Guy Fawkes has made it to the protest!

[tanos1998]

sounds good to me!

[orasis]

They weren't protesting intellectual property rights! They were protesting the intelligence gathering within the act, the Polish people were under secret police not very long ago, they actually remember what totalitarian surveillance is. Read ACTA it's not just about copyrights it's about expanding state surveillance on all Internet services.

[nikobelick30]

camon dudes stop acta

[Y0si666]

POLAND <3

[nobody8955]

what i can see is that in this time of crisis , where almost everybody is confused "those" try to enslave us all