The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared
To me, code is much more of a long term threat to the power structure than intellectual property theft is.  I'm wondering how long before we have government-sanctioned libraries, languages, and chipsets that we may develop for.  I see this TPP as power consolidating ahead of any looming citizen revolt in order to chop it off at the knees.  It's very weird and awesome to watch.<p>I do chuckle about all this though because these moves are so clumsy and obvious.  And recently the spokesmouths of the powerful have been SO ineffective.  The Jade Helm scare-o-tron rollout was completely botched and scrapped as far as I can tell.  Selling a war with Syria was also completely botched.  Kerry has been a fool as sec. of state and never met a war he didn't like, talks about going to war all the time to the press with no context.  CIA and arms deals in Benghazi and the sloppy coverup around that, we FUBAR'ed Libya for no good reason.  Obama openly threatening whistleblowers like a douche.  Republican establishment is losing its grip on the reins and losing containment of the growing number of dissenting voices.  If I were the archons in power behind the scenes, I'd be concerned.<p>As a developer, if I wanted to - REALLY wanted to - I feel like I could upend all of their power and diminish their relevance.  I wouldn't do it with anarchy or hacktivism or whatnot because that destruction is desperate and ultimately self-defeating.  Instead, I'd take the constructive route and build an alternate system to the internet that resists regulation and rewards the decentralization of server computing power and storage.<p>I have a day job that pays just fine and I live a peaceful life with my family where I get to enjoy a lot of personal freedom.  I don't take a lot of action today other than to avoid the social networks like the plague.  I think the trigger for me to act will be when my ox gets gored somehow by these new regulations.  Or, perhaps if we go to war with some rogue state who dares violate the intellectual property rights of Disney, etc.