Ladies and gentlemen,
There is a "new" threat that has arisen, I don't know the details in whether or not it's from the same guys that came up with SOPA/PIPA, but it's basically identical with their internet control. It's called the ""Trans Pacific Partnership", or TPP in short. This (TPP) has already existed for a very long time but the internet wasn't included. Here's what's new:
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For those that really don't want to read the really long post, here's a few things you could be concerned about (Taken from the article above):
• Subject cyber security and data privacy to international control;
• Allow foreign phone companies to charge fees for "international" Internet traffic, perhaps even on a "per-click" basis for certain Web destinations, with the goal of generating revenue for state-owned phone companies and government treasuries;
• Impose unprecedented economic regulations such as mandates for rates, terms and conditions for currently unregulated traffic-swapping agreements known as "peering."
• Establish for the first time ITU dominion over important functions of multi-stakeholder Internet governance entities such as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the nonprofit entity that coordinates the .com and .org Web addresses of the world;
• Subsume under intergovernmental control many functions of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Society and other multi-stakeholder groups that establish the engineering and technical standards that allow the Internet to work;
• Regulate international mobile roaming rates and practices.
So there you have it. If you didn't read the article but got interested after reading the points I copied, maybe you should give it a go anyway. It's basically a really good explanation of what this means.
I don't know what loopholes the TPP will have to go through, but as I read it, it's progressed quite far already in that "On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet."
I have no clue how long that process will take, but I assume they're in a hurry to make big cash and play big brother.
My apologies for the long post.
TL;DR: TPP is SOPA/PIPA/ACTA's (Even if EU isn't involved) big brother.