[governance] China: "we don't agree that the IGF should

[carlos a. afonso]

MM, there is a lot of material, unfortunately mostly in Portuguese. And
there is a strong mobilization against the bill of law (called the
Azeredo Bill of Law, after the name of the senator who, lobbied by the
big banks, is pushing it through Congress). The minister of Justice has
made a strong statement against the bill as it stands now, but most of
Congress have no idea what the senator is talking about and will
probably vote in favor if he or she is from an opposition party.

For further info in English, try:

http://ubisurv.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/internet-surveillance-in-brazil/

http://ubisurv.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/internet-surveillance-in-brazil-2/

http://0fx66.com/blog/en/internet/ato-contra-o-ai-5-digital/

The law is especially pernicious in the case of free access services
(like free wireless networks, community telecenters etc etc). Thousands
of free access services would have to start doing logs and register
personal ID data on users -- and this is were the bill is at its worst.
Children would be required to identify themselves with formal documents
in order to use a terminal in a community telecenter and so on. The bill
also requires that content providers identify and record visitors !! The
funny thing is that most of the content services considered are in
foreign servers, far from the reach of Azeredo's claws!!

It will mean a brutal violation of privacy and freedom of expression,
and an incredible burden to all kinds of Internet services' operators.

Unlike Sarkozy, who wants to catch people doing P2P (who automatically
become suspects when doing it), the Azeredo bill turns every Brazilian
Internet user into a suspect, even a six-year old using a telecenter.

frt rgds

--c.a.

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Carlos A. Afonso
Rits - Rede de Informações para o Terceiro Setor
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-----Original Message-----
From: Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu>
To: "'governance at lists.cpsr.org'" <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
Cc: "Afonso, Carlos" <ca at rits.org.br>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 15:40:08 -0400
Subject: RE: [governance] China: "we don't agree that the IGF should

> +1 Carlos. Working recently on my analysis of content regulation
> practices in the WEST, I can vouch for the truth of this observation:
> 
> > Brazil is a representative democracy just llike us, what are 
> > you doing, aligning yourself with Iran, China and so on? I now
> return 
> > the question, sadly, as Europe seems to be joining happily, step by
> step, 
> > the likes of China and Saudi Arabia regarding fundamental human
> rights on 
> > the Internet.
> 
> Privately, can you tell me more about what is going on here?
> 
> > We are right now in Brazil fighting against draconian
> > bills of law which would in practice eliminate the Internet as we
> know
> > it. 
> 
> Milton Mueller
> Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
> XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology
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