The post points out that Apple would have been able to patent rectangles if this had been around 10 years ago. I don't think it is in support of TPP.

Yes it as the top because of the method you are choosing to sort by. Sort it by top and it will not be the top post.

Once this passes, companies will be able to sue the FCC to get rid or override Net neutrality. None of us do not want this to happen. We would be all considered criminals by the corporations for watching movies or listening to music before the release date. Remembering going to "Youtube" or "Pirate Bay" will be a fleeting memory in our minds as we are chained in the back room. The internet will not be the same anymore as it will be riddled with censorship and we will have to pay for "packages" as it was for cable.

It is sad that Reddit, by all means went after the government for trying to pass SOPA and PIPA. Those policies failed because sites like Reddit and many others fought for the people and open internet. These important people contributed to the spreading of information about these dangerous policies to the public. These people learned that sites like Reddit were dangerous to their quest for power and did everything in their power to slience, censor, shadowban anyone who tried to reveal the truth of their actions and the TPP.

Reddit is a toothless shadow of what it once used to be.

There's definitely a system in place with crowd aggregation in order to manipulate perception.

I saw it here on voat a few days back, when the chromium / debian news first broke.

Top comment was a Google shill spreading misinformation. Much disagreement in the thread, but the overall perception was controlled.

Interestingly Paul Krugman and Larry Sommers have said similar things about TPP - it won't have a HUGE impact on 1) The global economy and 2) Americans losing manufacturing jobs, which is a large amount of opposition voiced in the MSM. Read here: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/tpp-at-the-nabe/?_r=0 . But this is not really the biggest concern for most Americans. It is the intellectual property laws and the handing of power to corporations in a way that makes domestic law impotent that is so frightening. When corporations can sue governments so freely, this essentially provides another route for companies to siphon money from the tax payers, since this is where government money comes from. Also, lack of access to medicine is pretty concerning.

Here is a quote from the top comment that makes the point pretty well: "Strange. PK devotes an entire post to TPP and doesn't mention what is the most concerning aspect of it to me, and many others. It represents a bald faced attack on the ability of democratically elected governments to regulate the corporate sector. It replaces regulation and the court system with a star chamber of corporate lawyer/lobbyists who take turns arguing before the chamber and sitting in judgment. It then awards reparations on the basis of "lost future profits" with little to no appeal. We the people have no advocate in these proceedings."

UPDATE : The said comment is no longer the top comment but the second comment, by a big margin.

The shills are going be plenty with this one on Reddit and I assume, here soon. Meanwhile, as we have already seen, the whole thing will receive little to no major media attention as the corporations who are backing the treaties own the media outlets.

I'm surprised, not by the fact that its a pretty obvious attempt on the part of those who gain from TTP. I'm surprised they stopped long enough to do it. I mean look at the confederate flag issue all over reddit. Its funny, next time watch reddit. Anytime any legislation, executive action or anything comes up, watch reddit. They will start circlejerking about something to draw attention away.. Dead serious reddit as a whole is nothing but a useful idiot as Lenin use to say.. (Look Lenin up, he's one crazy psychotic bastard, exactly where we are heading)..

It was only a matter a time before they realized how effective reddit is at harboring support for specific causes that the public deems important. After cyber security acts like SOPA, PIPA, etc. failed to pass and reddit was attributed to the spread of information and educating the masses on the issue at hand, as well as being seen as responsible for urging the masses to call their representatives, they became more determined to not allow that to happen again.

The TPP is far too important for the corporate elite for them to allow Reddit and the internet brigade to affect the outcome, so censorship, distorted narratives, and media distractions are their go-to prevention techniques to keep the masses uninformed and complacent.