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A Tweet-Style Protest for Canadian DMCA, ACTA

By james_fudge

If you are Canadian and want to protest your country's adoption of a DMCA-style copyright bill and its participation in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, then you might want to visit the Academicalism Blog for some Twitter style messages to your elected officials.

Naturally the messages are your standard 140 characters long and will fit on a postcard - which you can mail for free in Canada to James Moore (Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages) and Tony Clement (Minister of Industry). Here's what those tweets look like:

I oppose any IP bill that includes strong digital lock provisions, excludes flexible fair dealing protections, & ignores public consultation

I oppose Canada's secretive and undemocratic participation in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and I also oppose ACTA itself.

While these tweets are "geek chic," they will probably just confuse Canadian politicians, who probably think a "tweet" is the sound a Brown Booby might make. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on May 11, 2010 (boomark / email).