Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4848837-20140410010939

Just last month, all of us who saw the Thread:157885 on SOPA redux were tumultuous. With the threat of SOPA hitting Congress, we all felt the need to put our voice in via a petition against this absurd policy that would heavily effect fan content-based websites (including what's basically BTP's sister site, BTFF, where a lot of users here frequent). Today, we are faced with an even greater issue, and I'm sorry I'm bringing it up so close to the deadline. It's SOPA's little brother, or cousin, or something -- something related, through which similar effects to us could come about if it's allowed to pass.

It's called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (or, TPP). In addition to removal of anything that would seem to infringe on copyrights (including any and all fan content, like fan fiction, fanart, and fan-made videos), all service providers would primarily be forced to police your every action. Anonymous browsing is no more. And anything else you might think of doing under the radar? I'll answer that with a short "Not gonna happen."

You know what I'm getting at, and if you were here last month, you know what needs to be done. Sign the petition, we need 100K signatures...we have 11K...and 4 days. Pass the word along, guys, because this may mean the end of any policy capable of doing what SOPA or TPP could have/can do.

​https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-sopa-policies-trans-pacific-partnership-notice-and-staydown-efforts-and-other-policies/dXMRvNh8

'''TL;DR: TPP is a lot like SOPA, except we could also have all our history monitored and reported. Sign this if you won't be having that, and spread the word.''' 