This was discussed at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11880399" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11880399</a>.
TPP the largest cross-national, non-military cooperation pact of our time. It's a huge power play with serious geopolitical consequences that go far beyond Google.<p>Nonetheless, Google benefits from TPP because it enables them to shift operations to areas with lower costs, and not having their services blocked or censored in participating countries. They clearly feel that the advantages of TPP outweigh the drawbacks. I don't expect a public corporation to oppose a trade agreement on grounds of protectionism or ideology.<p>Author cites expansion of copyright and corresponding limitation of free use as specific problems with TPP, but Google comes out in support of those points. Analysis of other problematic provisions of TPP would serve to make the article more persuasive, rather than stating that Google is wrong on those grounds.
Google has come down on the right side of the TPP - for Google. The company is a major major major player for most of humanity outside of China. Even people who use exactly zero Google products or services are inextricably linked with those who do, by just a few degrees of separation. This deal would be a huge benefit to one of the most global corporations in history. I'm not defending Google by any means, but the company had every right to defend its own self-interest.
"The TPP requires the 12 participating countries to allow cross-border transfers of information and prohibits them from requiring local storage of data"<p>Yup, definitely the wrong side of this. I can't see how this will get passed in the EU when it directly contradicts all the previous data protection rulings, but presumably there will be some undemocratic process.
the TPP is good (great) for entities made out of humans and their tools, but it's pretty bad for entities comprised of (mostly) human cells, i.e. individual humans.
This is what irrational looks like. "just wrong" Um. Ok. Why? `limiting exploration of fair use` Unless you're one of those empirical people and like human experimentation, which is rather unethical when people's livelihoods are at stake, you can literally theorize that right now. Go ahead. Everybody's listening.<p>Well, while you continue to think about that and have no answer, we'll continue using laws that protect content creators.<p>Many of these opinions are nonsensical anti-capitalist drivel.<p>TPP is consistency and compromise and if there's a real better way, you better believe countries will adapt to it.