[bestbits] Brazil approves 8 internet censorhip laws

Thu Mar 31 13:48:32 EDT 2016

ITS provided this translation.

*Politicians want to censor the Internet in Brazil with the excuse of
fighting "cyber crime"*

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.
Among the proposals that are set out in the final report of the CPI of
Cybercrime are:

a) *Turning social networks censorship bodies to protect the honor of
politicians. *If anyone speak ill of a politician in a social network, the
social network will be required to remove the content within 48 hours. 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.

b) *Send to jail for two years people who simply violate the "terms of use"
of a site. *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.

c) *Divert 10% of the collected Fistel, which aim to improve the quality of
telecommunications in Brazil to finance the police. *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.

d) *Assigning responsibility to the federal police for any crime committed
using a computer or mobile phone. *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.

e) *require Internet providers to automatically reveal who is behind each
IP address on the network, *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.

f) *Establish outright censorship on the Internet. *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.

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).

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.
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.

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.

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.

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*Javier Pallero*

Policy Analyst / Analista de Politicas
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On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Mishi Choudhary <mishi at softwarefreedom.org
> wrote:

> Renata,
>
> Can you provide  a gist of what has been passed?
>
> On 03/31/2016 12:35 PM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Yesterday, Brazilian Congress approved 8 internet censorship bills
> > projects.
> >
> > This has been brewing for a long time but it is still shocking.
> >
> > Freedom of expression advocates in the region can use your support more
> > than ever.
> >
> > Unfortunately I have only links in Portugues. More news to come.
> >
> >
> https://medium.com/@ITSriodejaneiro/pol%C3%ADticos-querem-censurar-a-internet-no-brasil-com-a-desculpa-de-combater-o-cibercrime-bb2de118efa3#.w6m5nl35c
> >
> >
> http://ibidem.org.br/cpiciber-organizacoes-da-sociedade-civil-apresentam-suas-preocupacoes-ao-relator/
> >
> > http://cpiciber.codingrights.org/sumario-executivo/
> >
> > All the best
> >
> > Renata
> >
> >
> >
> >
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