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It's a publicity stunt. The goal is to raise awareness for the shady nature of this trade deal, and hopefully get someone to step up and release the rest of the
by oskarth 11y ago
It's a publicity stunt. The goal is to raise awareness for the shady nature of this trade deal, and hopefully get someone to step up and release the rest of the documents. So far it's been going well - this article was written the Washington Post, and it raises awareness of TPP. What remains to be seen is whether someone will step up.
- snowwrestler 11y agoI agree that it's a publicity stunt. Most of the agreement will be totally boring to HN type folks--pages and pages of fine-grained calibration of relative tariffs on agricultural products, etc. The most controversion provisions are probably already known (ISDS, which has been a standard part of trade deals for years), or leaked (the IP chapter). That said, I'll be interested to see the language on cross-border data flows. One of the reported provisions is that signatories to the TPP will have to treat data from all signatories equally (i.e. no nation-based filtering). Another is that signatories will not be able to require tech companies to house their servers locally to provide services locally. Those both sound like they would be welcomed by tech companies.