At what point did it stop becoming a government for the people? It is difficult for me to remember a time when government did something because it was the right thing to do instead of being the politically expedient thing to do. Am I that naive in that big business took over the government years ago and I am only recognizing that fact now?
Copyright laws were put in place for the benefit of society as a whole, not as a means to prop up business models that have failed to evolve along with the rest of society. In the current set of governments around the world the people who get to write copyright laws are either the government officials who received thousands of dollars in contribution from an organization that uses copyright as its main business model or ... the organization itself.
ACTA? People don't want ACTA, they never did. Any attempt by any government to say that its people wanted ACTA is just poppycock.
SOPA? Big business wanted SOPA, not the people.
TPP? Big business wanted TPP, not the people.
Copyright extension laws? Big business wanted those, not the people.
When I grew up the clouds were white, decisions were easy to make and the world revolved around the fact that the people of the world were what mattered. Now when I look around I see that Big Business is now more important than the people that elect the governemnt. Heck, Big Business buys the government and the individuals who propose more laws to help Big Business get the money.
Is this the world we want to live in?
