I don't. No one does (besides people who have negotiated it). AND EXACTLY THAT IS THE PROBLEM! Those who are elected are kept in the dark, too: http://www.ip-watch.org/2015/09/09/german-bundestag-not-happ...

Maybe we the citizens are just plain stupid to understand so we need to be persuaded: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140620/14292827638/us-em...

(Just like we were for Iraq war)

One of the examples of the "brave new world": http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/22/eu-droppe...

You want you and your children and grandchildren to live in it?

If TTIP is SOOOO great why secrecy, why so many people who don't have financial interest in it are against it?

I could write a lot about it...

If copyright extensions are in the agreement -- which I think is a good assumption -- then the Disney/Bono content lobby will be effectively writing the law in the signatory countries. I think you can call that anti-democratic.

Ian Fleming's work -- as an example -- is in the public domain in Canada, but not for long.

I am also curious if the DMCA -- and its flaws -- will be internationalized.

The problem with these deals is that citizens of a partner country cannot easily overturn them. When you agree on international standards and some partner wants to introduce higher standards in their own country, they are liable for the losses of companies who suddenly cannot sell their products in that one country anymore. Of course I do not know the specifics of this agreement yet, but clauses that enforce this have been introduced into all attempts at international trade treaties for more than a decade now, so I think it is a safe bet to say this one contains them as well.

Yeah, guns are good... at least for something. :))))