Congress’ $2.3 trillion spending and relief package includes controversial measures previously introduced as the CASE Act, the Trademark Modernization Act, and a felony streaming proposal — all significantly expanding the rights and powers of intellectual property owners.
“The CASE Act is a terribly written law that will threaten ordinary Internet users with huge fines for everyday online activity. It’s absurd that lawmakers included these provisions in a must-pass spending bill,” Evan Greer, deputy director of Fight for the Future,
The multitrillion-dollar package also includes a provision authored by Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) that would allow the Justice Department to charge businesses for felony copyright infringement if they intentionally stream copyrighted material online.
Ruling class will never let anything go to waste.
Remember - copyright and patents are very important for exploiters and both must be fully eliminated. And anyone who stands for keeping them or widening is effectively enemy of the people
Several members of Congress are taking to social media to complain about the handful of hours they have to read the 5,593-page spending bill.
Early Monday afternoon, the behemoth piece of legislation was uploaded, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scheduled a vote for the evening.
Democracy is such a thing :-)
Btw bill also includes lot of money for weapons and lot more.
A LOT of weapons. power to the people?
Ruling class hope to use this weapons against people. In case things will went wrong.
"Send me a suitable bill or else the next administration will have to deliver a COVID relief package and maybe that administration will be me and we will get it done."
Trump seems to be wrecking dreams of guys again.
Calling the legislation “a disgrace,” Mr. Trump stopped short of threatening a veto. But he asked Congress to “amend” the bill to increase direct payments of $600 to $2,000, calling the former amount “ridiculously low.”
At least some smart move, as such way he'll delay it for another month, enough to cause widespread crisis.
Congress’s $900 billion stimulus bill includes some unexpected climate provisions, including new restrictions that will change the way Americans cool their homes and refrigerate their groceries. The new measures will phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used in air conditioning and refrigeration, “super” greenhouse gases that are thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide in their climate impact.
The goal of the provision is to cut the production and import of HFCs by 85 percent by 2035.
We really need Nurnberg like independent trial with any scientist executed who lied and promoted global warming (as human only induced thing) or ozon hoax.
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