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"Madam President, for once, I was pleasantly surprised that Parliament’s Committee on International Trade (INTA) took a position on 21 June against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which will be put to the vote tomorrow.
In keeping with my opposition in France to the bureaucratic censorship authority, Hadopi, which is a sort of French version of ACTA and which has already shown real shortcomings – particularly technical shortcomings – in its fight against piracy of protected works, I will vote for this recommendation, which aims to put an end to this umpteenth freedom destroying project, this time on an international scale, for ACTA is most definitely a freedom destroying, internationalist project. Under the guise of wanting to combat counterfeiting, ACTA’s repressive logic with regard to individuals would surely lead to Internet censorship while threatening access to culture for the weakest of our fellow citizens to the sole benefit of large private groups.
Lastly, allow me to offer another perspective, because if we are surrounded by counterfeit or poor quality products in Europe, is that not primarily because our countries are actually paying the price for Europeanist policies and internationalist and ultraliberal dogma? Is it not also the fault of the Commission, which still believes, despite the terrible financial, economic and social crisis we are facing today, that our borders should remain open to the four winds of brutal and unfair competition?
In conclusion, yes, for the sake of democracy and freedom, we must reject ACTA at all costs."@en1
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