<div dir="auto"><div>Dear Bruno<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The Technical Community and the Civil Society have so far been conservative in supporting regulatory proposals, out of concern for the unintended harm that could potentially result from well meant legislation. You have proposed to endorse the Fake News legislation, attached the text, but it would be helpful if you could attach a summary of your rationale as to why the International Organizations ought to stand in solidarity to support this regulation (and whatever that would follow.)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sivasubramanian Muthusamy</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 29 Apr, 2023, 21:17 Bruna Martins dos Santos, <<a href="mailto:bruna.mrtns@gmail.com">bruna.mrtns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear all, <div><br></div><div>Hope this email finds you well and apologize in advance for sending it on a saturday. </div><div><br></div><div>But as some of you know, Brazil is back to discussing its Fake News Draft Bill and the text should be voted on tuesday. While this version is somehow different from the one we called attention to a few years ago, it is still a text that could allow the country to advance a lot on setting proper limits to the abuses of big tech companies and sets a good ground on transparency and due process requisites and so on. <br><br>Some Civil Society organizations wrote an international solidarity Open Letter titled <i>"</i><span id="m_-19432661451505769gmail-docs-internal-guid-e3fb1d91-7fff-e06a-b14a-0b46a9f998e1"><span style="font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i>Protecting Against Harm: International Organizations Stand in Solidarity with Brazil to Hold Big Tech Accountable" </i></span><span style="font-family:Montserrat,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and we would very much welcome signatures on it. Our time for mobilizing more support around this bill is rather sensitive due to the fact that some far right movements - alongside big tech companies - have been spreading a lot of lies about the text itself, buying ads online and targeting Internet users all over the country in an attempt to block this regulation. </span></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Montserrat, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Montserrat, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">The Open letter can be read - and signed - here: </span></font><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zQoewXRJsg_T8C0jZYjBraVGVSX-xgElD3ltI8C0R80/edit" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zQoewXRJsg_T8C0jZYjBraVGVSX-xgElD3ltI8C0R80/edit</a> - and im also attaching the latest version of the Draft Bill for broader knowledge (: <br><br>Best, </div><div><span>-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><i>Bruna Martins dos Santos <br></i></b><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></div><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11px"></span></font></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">German Chancellor Fellow 21' (</font></span></font><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif">Bundeskanzler-Stipendiatin</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">) | <a href="https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Alexander von Humboldt Foundation</a></span></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Member | <a href="https://direitosnarede.org.br/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Coalizão Direitos na Rede</a> </font></span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Co-Coordinator</font></span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif"> | <a href="https://igcaucus.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Internet Governance Caucus </a><br></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></font></p><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font size="1" color="#000000"><font size="2">Twitter: <a href="ht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