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"Mr President, I have been listening to this debate, but actually I do not know if we are all talking about the same thing. It really is very simple, because the story of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is a story firstly of arrogance, then of contempt, secret negotiations, requests for information about the progress of those negotiations, and refusals. It is also a story of revolt, because Internet users went on to the streets and something started which those gentlemen behind closed doors had not foreseen. This was followed by fear of the rebellion, and once that began, we began to see ACTA being abandoned. Governments started to back down, saying ‘actually we never wanted this, we did not know, we thought it was all about baseball boots – not about freedom, but about counterfeit trainers’.
I would therefore like to warn everyone who thinks of trying to get changes on Internet freedoms in through the back door: do not do it, because it does not pay. The revolt may happen again. If you want to say something worthwhile about freedom on the Internet, then say it openly. ACTA will die an orphan, but it will leave all the problems behind."@en1
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