<div>Congratulations for all of you, dear Marilia and all brazilians, you are doing a great job!</div>
<div>Best,</div>
<div>Roxana</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2010/4/9 Marilia Maciel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mariliamaciel@gmail.com">mariliamaciel@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear members of the list,<br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As you may have heard, Brazil is going through a very special (and unique) phase of the regulation of Internet in the country. In the end of 2009, a process of public consultation to collaboratively elaborate a <em><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">civil</span></em><i>-</i>rights based regulatory <em><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">framework</span></em> for <em><span style="FONT-STYLE: normal">internet</span></em> in Brazil has been put forth by the Ministry of Justice (MJ), with the support of the Center for Technology and Society (CTS) of the Getulio Vargas Foundation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This collaborative process substitutes very dangerous attempts to regulate the Internet from a criminal standpoint . The more widely known bill was called law Azeredo, which disregarded privacy concerns and criminalized socially accepted behaviors. The result would be massive criminalization of the population and a draconian protection of copyright.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A platform has been created specially for people to comment of the proposal of civil framework. On the first phase of the consultation people had to comment on a text about general principles and issues. Those comments were read and systematized by MJ and CTS and have based the creation of a draft bill. This bill has been made available online yesterday. It is under a second phase of public consultation, which will last for 45 days. The suggestions will be again systematized and incorporated to the bill, which will then be present to our Congress for discussion. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Some points of this process need to be highlighted:</p>
<p><span><span>1-<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span>This is a unique process of public consultation. There has never been such a wide and open possibility for society to be heard about a new regulation. Participation on the first phase came from civil society, business sector and governments organizations.</p>
<p><span><span>2-<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span> </span>This is a pilot-experiment, that can be used in the future to discuss other law proposals. In this sense, Brazil is making a huge step towards the improvement of e-participation and e-democracy.</p>
<p><span><span>3-<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span>The battle is just beginning. There is a long way until the bill is approved. But we would not have come this far without a vibrant civil society movement who has said “no” to laws like “Azeredo law” and has made protests and campaigns throughout the country, both online and offline.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I would like to share with you the link to the platform. Although the text of the bill is only in Portuguese, we are already working on its translation in order to give it publicity outside Brazil.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/" target="_blank">http://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is a very important moment for the Brazilian Internet users and I would like to share the good news with you.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marília</p>-- <br><font color="#888888">Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade<br>FGV Direito Rio<br><br>Center of Technology and Society<br>Getulio Vargas Foundation<br>Rio de Janeiro - Brazil<br></font><br>
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