Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4848837-20140410010503

Just last month, all of us who saw the thread 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 -- especially BTFF. 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 (especially fan fiction, the core of BTFF (heck, it's in the name!)), all service providers would primarily be forced to police your every action. Anonymous browsing is no more. And anything you 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. ''' 