Thread by @doctorow

When Donald Trump tore up #NAFTA and replaced it with the #USMCA, Canada took it as an occasion to correct errors in its copyright law - defects that undermined free expression, privacy, cybersecurity and competition.

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Mexico could have done the same. Instead, it rushed through a brutal copy-and-paste of the US copyright system (with Hecho en Mexico - but lobbied by US business- additions that make it even worse).

eff.org/deeplinks/2020…

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Mexico's new copyright law is a disaster, with DRM rules that are even more onerous than US versions, providing for criminal penalties for bypassing copyright locks even if no copyright violation takes place.

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That compromises cybersecurity, repair, adaptation for people with disabilities and competition, putting Mexican people and Mexican businesses at a permanent disadvantage relative to their US and Canadian counterparts.

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Just as bad are the copyright takedown rules, which do not allow a service provider to disregard obviously fraudulent claims designed to censor speech. Even LINKS are considered infringement under these rules!

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As if that wasn't bad enough, the Mexican law mandates automated filters for Mexico's internet, a move that will subject every online utterance of every Mexican to algorithmic black-box censorship.

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These filters cost hundreds of millions of dollars - kiss goodbye any hope of a Mexican competitor to US Big Tech ever emerging - and are catastrophic to free expression.

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We have until the end of the month to convince Mexico's National Human Rights Commission to overturn this terrible law. Here's a petition that Mexicans can sign, courtesy of @R3Dmx.

participa.nicensuranicandados.org

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