The ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is a multi-national prurilateral agreement that, if implemented, would have drastically negative impacts on world trade, personal privacy, freedom of information, and the personal and business flow of the internet.
Most alarmingly, ACTA would make a large number of common generics, such as used in Wal-Mart Pharmacies' $4 Generic Plans, illegal to import. This would result in hundreds of thousands of people being forced to purchase overpriced name-brands which offer absolutely no benefits over the generics, many of which are not covered under common healthcare plans, including Medicare and Medicaid. The resultant cost would be an average of $80+ a month more for patients taking these medications. Examples include Omeaprazole (Prilosec), Lorazepam, and Albuterol inhalers. In the face of our failing healthcare system and an already exorbitant average American debt caused by medical costs, this is unacceptable. This will also do much for stifling free trade with many countries and continents, such as Africa and China, which sell these medications to Americans, worsening our global market ties and limiting prescription medication choices.
Secondly, ACTA would introduce sweeping new limitations on the free exchange of information on the internet, and force ISPs to 'blacklist' users for even minor actions without trial, hearing, a means of defense, or way to reverse the process if they are reported (true or not) by a copyright holder.
Aaron Shaw, Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, argues that "ACTA would create unduly harsh legal standards that do not reflect contemporary principles of democratic government, free market exchange, or civil liberties. Even though the precise terms of ACTA remain undecided, the negotiants' preliminary documents reveal many troubling aspects of the proposed agreement" such as removing "legal safeguards that protect Internet Service Providers from liability for the actions of their subscribers" in effect giving ISPs no option but to comply with privacy invasions. Shaw further says that "[ACTA] would also facilitate privacy violations by trademark and copyright holders against private citizens suspected of infringement activities without any sort of legal due process".

ACTA does next to nothing good for Europeans, Americans, and Australians but represents a massive threat to freedom and privacy, free choice of affordable healthcare, personal freedom, liberty, and human rights.
We must stop this now, together.