<story><title>22 EU states sign the ACTA ‘Internet censorship’ treaty</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/eu/2012/01/26/the-eu-and-22-member-states-sign-the-controversial-acta-internet-censorship-treaty/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>narrator</author><text>The oligarchy in China is at least out in the open and nationalistic.&lt;p&gt;In the west the oligarchy does everything in secret, their motives are largely unclear, and they keep everyone focused on culture war issues that never get resolved and celebrity like gossiping about politicians. Meanwhile, the lobbyists and the rest of the oligarchy write absurdly complex bills and pass them in obscurity.&lt;p&gt;In Russia it&apos;s a bit of a hybrid of the western and eastern system.</text></comment>
<story><title>22 EU states sign the ACTA ‘Internet censorship’ treaty</title><url>http://thenextweb.com/eu/2012/01/26/the-eu-and-22-member-states-sign-the-controversial-acta-internet-censorship-treaty/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ergo14</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3514232&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3514232&lt;/a&gt; - ACTA will NOT pass as of now since it&apos;s in validation of Basic Human Rights Bill, so it looks with exception of Poland and Czech EU is safe, but i have high hopes that our (polish) parliament will not ratify the document. So lets hope not everything is lost.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/bert-knabe/2011-11-25/european-court-justice-internet-filtering-illegal#.TyGXlkDCQkA&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/bert-knabe/2011-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;here are more sources on the matter</text></comment>