gatt.org

Similarly, gatt.org [16] - a play on the acronym of The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, is a site that was designed as a lens for online dissent of the World Trade Organization summit in 1999. Sponsored by the anonymous corporate subversion group ŪTmark [17], the site mirrored the look and feel of the wto.org site [18], but reflected 'alternative' views that did not paint the organization in glowing terms. In response, WTO Director General Mike Moore protested the mock site, citing its tactics of confusion. However, when confronted with such statements, the gatt.org staff rallied back that it was, in fact, the real site. Gatt.org in its claim accused the wto.org site of actually being guilty of obfuscating the real issues of corporate abuse, as the thousands of documents contained at the WTO were of a number and nature that only corporate interests could glean any meaningful information whatsoever. Following from this, gatt.org declared that such an informational opacity denied any freedom of information to the public. Probably because of the short duration of the summit, anonymous nature of the website's architects, and riots confronting the Seattle summit, little or no threat of legal action was reported in the popular media.