[Governance] [DigiCoopCoalition] Fake News Draft Bill - International Solidarity Letter

[Sivasubramanian M via Governance]

Dear Bruno

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.)

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy


On Sat, 29 Apr, 2023, 21:17 Bruna Martins dos Santos, <bruna.mrtns at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Hope this email finds you well and apologize in advance for sending it on
> a saturday.
>
> 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.
>
> Some Civil Society organizations wrote an international solidarity Open
> Letter titled *"**Protecting Against Harm: International Organizations
> Stand in Solidarity with Brazil to Hold Big Tech Accountable" *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.
>
> The Open letter can be read - and signed - here:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zQoewXRJsg_T8C0jZYjBraVGVSX-xgElD3ltI8C0R80/edit
> - and im also attaching the latest version of the Draft Bill for broader
> knowledge (:
>
> Best,
> --
>
> *Bruna Martins dos Santos *
>
> German Chancellor Fellow 21' (Bundeskanzler-Stipendiatin) | Alexander von
> Humboldt Foundation <https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/>
>
> Member | Coalizão Direitos na Rede <https://direitosnarede.org.br/>
> Co-Coordinator | Internet Governance Caucus  <https://igcaucus.org/>
>
> Twitter: @boomartins <https://twitter.com/boomartins> // Skype:
> bruna.martinsantos
> Email: bruna.mrtns at gmail.com
>
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