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TPP is dead
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RE: TPP is dead
Whatever good TPP had (and I'm sure it had some), it was ruined by a number of terrible provisions, including one which would allow foreign companies to sue the US government if they passed legislation that negatively affected their profits: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/busine...st-us.html

If you care about freedom of speech, especially on the Internet, then the EFF have an infographic explaining how bad it could get: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/whats-wrong-tpp

I'm glad TPP is dead. It should never have been negotiated behind closed doors, and it should never have just bent over backwards to huge corporations.
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TPP is dead - by dyresand - November 13, 2016 at 12:54 am
RE: TPP is dead - by Minimalist - November 13, 2016 at 1:01 am
RE: TPP is dead - by dyresand - November 13, 2016 at 1:32 am
RE: TPP is dead - by vorlon13 - November 13, 2016 at 1:05 am
RE: TPP is dead - by Whateverist - November 13, 2016 at 1:11 am
RE: TPP is dead - by Tiberius - November 13, 2016 at 1:29 am
RE: TPP is dead - by dyresand - November 13, 2016 at 1:34 am
RE: TPP is dead - by abaris - November 13, 2016 at 6:25 am
RE: TPP is dead - by vorlon13 - November 13, 2016 at 1:31 am
RE: TPP is dead - by Minimalist - November 13, 2016 at 2:06 am
RE: TPP is dead - by SteelCurtain - November 13, 2016 at 2:39 am
RE: TPP is dead - by dyresand - November 13, 2016 at 4:59 am
RE: TPP is dead - by SteelCurtain - November 13, 2016 at 5:08 am
RE: TPP is dead - by Minimalist - November 15, 2016 at 2:11 pm
TPP is dead - by KUSA - November 18, 2016 at 11:08 am

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