TPP Will Restrict Internet and Punish Whistleblowers

‘In addition to consolidating corporate power over 40% of the world’s economy, the recently agreed upon Trans-Pacific Partnership deal will target internet-based investigative journalism and make it a crime to expose corporate crime.

The Independent reported on Monday:

One particularly controversial part of the provisions make it a crime to reveal corporate wrongdoing “through a computer system”. Experts have pointed out that the wording is very vague, and could lead to whistleblowers being penalized for sharing important information, and lead to journalists stopping reporting on them. The draconian aspects of the TPP related to the internet were exposed in 2013 by Wikileaks.’

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