FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Poland Signs ACTA

Poland’s ambassador to Japan, Jadwiga Rodowicz-Czechowska, signed the controversial ACTA in Tokyo earlier today despite huge demonstrations in Warsaw Street and the hacking of governmental websites since the weekend.

Poland’s Prime Minister Tusk insisted that his government would not “succumb to blackmail”. But over 10,000 have taken the streets Wednesday across the nation to protest against censorship.

Later today, hundreds of people took to the streets of the eastern city of Lublin to express their anger over the treaty.

Young people held banners with slogans such as “no to censorship” and “a free internet”.

Demonstrators fear that Acta, which is to be ratified by the European Union, will be as pernicious as Sopa, the Stop Online Privacy Act which was withdrawn by the White House and the US Senate after a mass protest by hundreds of major user-generated content websites.

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