CLinton would have accepted it in a heartbeat because her corporate masters told her to.

I'm not sure what miracle caused the TPP to be delayed for so long.

Obama was in favor of it.

*Thankfully*, rejecting the TPP is a power the POTUS actually does have.

If it passed we could say goodbye to freedom of speech. That'd be gone. then and there.

The TPP would basically be the start of the world of Shadowrun lol

I'm surprised SJWs fought it. It had everything they wanted. Controlling what people say is a wet dream of theirs.

you know what would be amazing is if Farage took some sort of position advising Trump, or was at least involved in US politics more

SJWs are a lot of things but they are not pro-establishment

and another good thing is that the morning after the election Putin was already talking about fixing relations with Russia

and the US

What is tpp?

It's cancer

I am not American so I don't know

Trans Pacific Partnership.

Do you know TTIP?

Ah

It's the same thing.

Yea

It was an international agreement that would have given multinational corporations direct control over the internet.

Abbreviation threw me off

Yeah no

Allowing them to censor people.

I know

What @Emma said, among other things.

well, ICANN is already a thing

Like literal cancer.

I am going fucking hack fucking everything if that happens

it's not in our hands anymore, the internet that is

Like the free speech thing just barely scratches the surface of how bad the TPP is.

I know

You know how badly YouTube handles copyright? And now it gets so badly abused?

Yes

It'd be like that. Only worse. And on the entire internet. Not just YouTube.

I know

Terrible

It's worse though. It allows for a special international court where multinationals can file criminal charges against anyone regardless of where they live.

You can literally go to jail and there's nothing your country's government can do about it to intervene.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN, /ˈaɪkæn/ eye-kan) is a nonprofit organization that is responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces of the Internet, ensuring the network's stable and secure operation.[1] ICANN performs the actual technical maintenance work of the central Internet address pools and DNS root zone registries pursuant to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) function contract. The contract regarding the IANA stewardship functions between ICANN and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of the United States Department of Commerce ended on October 1, 2016, formally transitioning the functions to the global multi-stakeholder community.

so yeah, this was already a thing, it's out of the US's hands now

Regulation of the internet in any way shape and form is bad