TPP to criminalize investigative journalism while destroying online media not run by globalist corporations - NaturalNews.com
TPP to criminalize investigative journalism while destroying online media not run by globalist corporations - NaturalNews.com
TPP to criminalize investigative journalism while destroying online media not run by globalist corporations
(NaturalNews) Are Natural News,
its growing network of news and information sites and all other
alternative media in danger of becoming extinct? This thought would
become more than just a remote possibility if newly revealed data about
the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement the Bush and Obama
administrations have spent years negotiating are revealed to be
accurate.
According to the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF), a non-profit organization that focuses on protecting civil liberties
in today's Information Age, a recent leak of a May 2014 draft of the
TPP agreement revealed the addition of new text that criminalizes the
misuse of trade secrets via "computer systems."
"This is a significant revelation," said the EFF in a blog post,
"because we also know that trade secrets are planned for inclusion in
the EU-US free trade agreement, TTIP (the Trans-Atlantic Trade and
Investment Partnership).