US Announces Withdrawal from TPP

Re:US Announces Withdrawal from TPP by niftich on Saturday January 21, 2017 @09:55PM (#13453339)

You're not wrong, but you're proving my point. I've said before [1] that "TPP [is] the largest cross-national, non-military cooperation pact of our time. It's a huge power play with serious geopolitical consequences", a perspective that likely echoes that of US allies [2] and yet the conversation in the tech sphere focused solely on IP.

This is a good fight -- one I applaud and support the EFF for pursuing relentlessly -- but this is just one issue in a gigantic compromise legislation that has to attain broad legislative support inside the US [3][4] as well as support from the other signatories, of which there are many.

It was in fact a failure of messaging to not get out ahead of, or in response to these vocal oppositions, as the public's ire was allowed to foment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11893512#11894446 [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/world/asia/trans-pacific-... [3] http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/trade-trans-pacific-pa... [4] http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/293344-mcconnel...

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Re:US Announces Withdrawal from TPP by goodplay on Saturday January 21, 2017 @11:31PM (#13453587)

Then they shouldn't have grouped the orthogonal issues together in an all-or-nothing affair.

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Re:US Announces Withdrawal from TPP by Ericson2314 on Saturday January 21, 2017 @10:55PM (#13453503)

My understanding is that the other countries were not pushing to adopt our IP policies (though Japan did), so construing that point as compromise is a bit disingenuous.

I think that, with the exception of environmental policy on the part of the poorer counties, I'd prefer the other countries' notiations. (Other than IP I have no evidence though, as others have said it's hard to come by.)

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Re:US Announces Withdrawal from TPP by Natsu on Saturday January 21, 2017 @10:59PM (#13453511)

I do not see it as a communication problem because there's nothing they could tell me that would make me support those IP provisions.

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