<div dir="ltr">Guys,<div><br></div><div>we should sit together asap and see what we should do as a group against these horrible bills</div><div><br></div><div>Javier is trying to find a room, so we all host a meeting to discuss what we can do from RightsCon, since so many of us are here</div><div><br></div><div>Javier, we look forward to your information on where and when we could meet. Andrew, hope to see you there too :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Javi, pls keep all posted. </div><div><br></div><div>C </div><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Javier Pallero <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:javier@accessnow.org" target="_blank">javier@accessnow.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">ITS provided this translation. <div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite" style="font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><u>Politicians want to censor the Internet in Brazil with the excuse of fighting "cyber crime"</u></b></div><div><br></div><div>Pay attention to what just happened: the National Congress has just released the final report of the CPI of Cybercrime. The report proposes the creation of 8 bills to control the Internet. These projects are bombastic: they attack fundamental rights directly, such as freedom of expression, the right to privacy and maim the most important parts of the Civil Marco Internet, precisely those that protect against Internet surveillance and censorship.</div><div>Among the proposals that are set out in the final report of the CPI of Cybercrime are:</div><div><br></div><div>a) <b>Turning social networks censorship bodies to protect the honor of politicians. </b>If anyone speak ill of a politician in a social network, the social network will be required to remove the content <span><span>within 48 hours</span></span>. If not remove, the company will be co-responsible for that content and will have to compensate the offended politician. In other words, social networks will become permanent agent des surveillance and censorship of its users.</div><div><br></div><div>b) <b>Send to jail for two years people who simply violate the "terms of use" of a site. </b>Entered into a website or application and disregarded any provision that huge document that everyone clicks without even having read: chain for you for two years.</div><div><br></div><div>c) <b>Divert 10% of the collected Fistel, which aim to improve the quality of telecommunications in Brazil to finance the police. </b>Telecommunications that are already expensive and poor in Brazil will be even worse. The feature is collected to monitor the quality of Internet access, telephony and other services will be diverted to fund the police. Of course, this funding is important. But for that we have paid our taxes. You need not divert essential resources for this.</div><div><br></div><div>d) <b>Assigning responsibility to the federal police for any crime committed using a computer or mobile phone. </b>In other words, the boy or girl who download a music from the Internet may receive the federal Japanese visit. Someone to write something considered "defamatory" or "libelous" against a politician in social networks may have to explain to the Federal Police. In other words, several million Brazilians who do these activities every day can be watched and even arrested by federal police on suspicion of having committed "crimes by computer use," even if they are low offensive potential crimes.</div><div><br></div><div>e) <b>require Internet providers to automatically reveal who is behind each IP address on the network, </b>informing the police the name, affiliation and home address of the person without the need for prior judicial order. In other words, everyone will be presumed "guilty" in the Brazilian Internet and can be constantly monitored. If spoke ill of a politician on the Internet, the time you will know their identity and the Federal Police can be triggered against you.</div><div><br></div><div>f) <b>Establish outright censorship on the Internet. </b>The bill amends the Civil Marco, which prohibits censorship, creating a new article that will "determine the blocking connection providers access to Internet applications for users" to "curb services that are considered illegal." In other words, any site can be brought down the Brazilian Internet. Remember WhatsApp lock? This will be chump change close to what will happen. Any application, website or service may be blocked and censored directly by internet providers and Brazilians will be deprived of access it without any defense, affecting the lives of millions of people.</div><div><br></div><div>The CPI report proposing these changes opens with the signature of the Deputy Eduardo Cunha, current mayor. The CPI was chaired by Mrs Mariana Carvalho (PSDB-RO) and the text prepared by Mr Espiridião Amim (PP-SC) and Members Sandro Alex (PSD-PR), Rafael Motta (PSB-RN), Daniel Coelho (PSDB- PE) and Rodrigo Martins (PSB-PI).</div><div><br></div><div>What most amazed that CPI report of cybercrimes is how the internet is seen just like a "damnable den" and not as a source of jobs, innovation, development, and an essential tool for the future of Brazil.</div><div>In other words, they are criminalizing internet and placing the network under the strict control of the state. This is the same path taken by countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, North Korea and Russia.</div><div><br></div><div>It is unfortunate that Brazil, at that time the freedom of expression and the Internet are essential tools, have your internet CPI threatened by the initiative of cybercrimes. Of course, the internet crime needs to be fought. But this should be done respecting fundamental rights. What we are witnessing now is not an attempt to combat cybercrime, but rather an attempt to control the intenret, that has so troubled corrupt politicians in Brazil.</div><div><br></div><div>If you do not want the internet to be censored, share this information and speak up against the CPI of Cybercrime and eight bills it proposes to control the internet. Censorship never more.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px">---</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><b><font color="#000000" size="2">Javier Pallero</font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13px"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial">Policy Analyst / Analista de Politicas</font></font><br><font face="Arial"><font color="#000000">Access Now | </font><a href="http://accessnow.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">accessnow.org</a></font></span></font><br><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000" size="2"><span style="font-family:arial">PGP </span><font face="arial">0xEBFD028A</font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2"><font color="#000000" face="arial">Fingerprint 0503 FBA1 10B2 B83C 61FC FE3B 4E7E EBDD EBFD 028A</font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><i style="font-size:12.8px">Participe de RightsCon Silicon Valley, del 30 de Marzo al 1 de Abril de 2016: <a href="https://www.rightscon.org/" target="_blank">rightscon.org</a></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Mishi Choudhary <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mishi@softwarefreedom.org" target="_blank">mishi@softwarefreedom.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Renata,<br>
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Can you provide a gist of what has been passed?<br>
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On 03/31/2016 12:35 PM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro wrote:<br>
> Hi<br>
><br>
> Yesterday, Brazilian Congress approved 8 internet censorship bills<br>
> projects.<br>
><br>
> This has been brewing for a long time but it is still shocking.<br>
><br>
> Freedom of expression advocates in the region can use your support more<br>
> than ever.<br>
><br>
> Unfortunately I have only links in Portugues. More news to come.<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://medium.com/@ITSriodejaneiro/pol%C3%ADticos-querem-censurar-a-internet-no-brasil-com-a-desculpa-de-combater-o-cibercrime-bb2de118efa3#.w6m5nl35c" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@ITSriodejaneiro/pol%C3%ADticos-querem-censurar-a-internet-no-brasil-com-a-desculpa-de-combater-o-cibercrime-bb2de118efa3#.w6m5nl35c</a><br>
><br>
> <a href="http://ibidem.org.br/cpiciber-organizacoes-da-sociedade-civil-apresentam-suas-preocupacoes-ao-relator/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ibidem.org.br/cpiciber-organizacoes-da-sociedade-civil-apresentam-suas-preocupacoes-ao-relator/</a><br>
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> <a href="http://cpiciber.codingrights.org/sumario-executivo/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://cpiciber.codingrights.org/sumario-executivo/</a><br>
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> All the best<br>
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> Renata<br>
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