Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet rights approved in Brazil
And so they did sanction at NetMundial! http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/04/23/brazil-marcocivil-netmundial2014-senate-approves-bill/ To read and/or give contributions to ongoing debates in NetMundial, http://document.netmundial.br/introduction/ Governments have commented there too. Oona On 23 April 2014 19:57, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com wrote: Yei! That's something that must be replied in many countries. Congratulations Brazil. 2014-04-23 17:20 GMT-05:00 Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvare...@okfn.org: Now YES we can celebrate. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/04/23/brazil-marcocivil-netmundial2014-senate-approves-bill/ Cheers! Tom 2014-03-26 12:05 GMT-07:00 Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com: Fair enough, you're right. There is a long path yet ahead. The government is expecting to be able to sanction/sign it during NetMundialhttp://netmundial.br/meeting and has invested a lot on negotiations to make it real. Let's wait and see how far it can go. For those interested in regulation related matters, I'm attaching a draft version in English made by Raquel Gatto from ISOC Brazil and shared by Carolina Rossini, whom some of you might know. Oona On 26 March 2014 03:30, Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvare...@okfn.org wrote: Humm let's wait until the bill become a *law*. This is an important step, but we still need a lot of work here. When our access to information law [1] were approved by the chamber of deputies, its bill got stuck in the senate for a looong time. It was really, really hard to have any civil society influence to have it approved. I didn't believe when I saw it happening - as Spain, Brazil was one of the last big democracies without an access to information law. Now we have to analyse the senate situation and *if* it will be approved with the actual configuration. It is possible the bill will have to pass on several commissions and, if any lobbyist find its amable senator, this bill can easily get stuck. And we are in the presidential elections year, thus if eveything goes as usual, the law will likely be approved only next year. And if the presidential situation changes (workers party go out of the power, which is be very constrained with the world cup results, as incredible it can be for a gringo), things can change a lot regarding the actual political scenario. [1] * https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o* https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2011/lei/l12527.htm 2014-03-26 2:23 GMT-03:00 Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org: Yaho! On Mar 25, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! Subject is not 100% related to Wikimedia, but definitely important for the future of projects like ours. Marco civil da Internet (the Brazilian internet civil rights bill) has just been approved by the Brazilian Congress http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/camara-aprova-marco-civil-da-internet-projeto-segue-para-senado-11984559 . Now the Senate still needs to approve it. The bill has been recently supported http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.[1] Back in 2007, several Brazilian civil society organizations started to fight against bills which were about to be approved creating a penal law over certain uses of internet. This fight led the Brazilian government to build, together with other Brazilian organizations, a request for comment/collaborative platformhttp://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/[2] for the creation of a civil rights bill for the internet. Contributions were gathered together and a first draft was proposed for another round of public comments on 2010. A first draft was negotiated within the government in 2011. A lot of lobby over the Congress was carried out especially against the articles about net neutrality and internet service providers liability (both by telecommunication companies and the intellectual property industries, but mainly the former - they wanted all internet service providers to be obliged to remove content under a simple notification claiming the content should be removed. Internet civil rights activists claimed for the need of a justice decision about that). The case of NSA spying Brazil
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet rights approved in Brazil
On 23 April 2014 23:20, Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvare...@okfn.org wrote: Now YES we can celebrate. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/04/23/brazil-marcocivil-netmundial2014-senate-approves-bill/ Cheers! Tom For what? You know somewhere there is an ABIN employee vaguely wondering if they should make certain things public. Then deciding that Rio de Janeiro is preferable to Moscow. Eh its not as if ABIN had a great record of obeying the previous set of laws. geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet rights approved in Brazil
Now YES we can celebrate. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/04/23/brazil-marcocivil-netmundial2014-senate-approves-bill/ Cheers! Tom 2014-03-26 12:05 GMT-07:00 Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com: Fair enough, you're right. There is a long path yet ahead. The government is expecting to be able to sanction/sign it during NetMundialhttp://netmundial.br/meeting and has invested a lot on negotiations to make it real. Let's wait and see how far it can go. For those interested in regulation related matters, I'm attaching a draft version in English made by Raquel Gatto from ISOC Brazil and shared by Carolina Rossini, whom some of you might know. Oona On 26 March 2014 03:30, Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvare...@okfn.org wrote: Humm let's wait until the bill become a *law*. This is an important step, but we still need a lot of work here. When our access to information law [1] were approved by the chamber of deputies, its bill got stuck in the senate for a looong time. It was really, really hard to have any civil society influence to have it approved. I didn't believe when I saw it happening - as Spain, Brazil was one of the last big democracies without an access to information law. Now we have to analyse the senate situation and *if* it will be approved with the actual configuration. It is possible the bill will have to pass on several commissions and, if any lobbyist find its amable senator, this bill can easily get stuck. And we are in the presidential elections year, thus if eveything goes as usual, the law will likely be approved only next year. And if the presidential situation changes (workers party go out of the power, which is be very constrained with the world cup results, as incredible it can be for a gringo), things can change a lot regarding the actual political scenario. [1] * https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o* https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2011/lei/l12527.htm 2014-03-26 2:23 GMT-03:00 Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org: Yaho! On Mar 25, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! Subject is not 100% related to Wikimedia, but definitely important for the future of projects like ours. Marco civil da Internet (the Brazilian internet civil rights bill) has just been approved by the Brazilian Congress http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/camara-aprova-marco-civil-da-internet-projeto-segue-para-senado-11984559 . Now the Senate still needs to approve it. The bill has been recently supported http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.[1] Back in 2007, several Brazilian civil society organizations started to fight against bills which were about to be approved creating a penal law over certain uses of internet. This fight led the Brazilian government to build, together with other Brazilian organizations, a request for comment/collaborative platformhttp://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/[2] for the creation of a civil rights bill for the internet. Contributions were gathered together and a first draft was proposed for another round of public comments on 2010. A first draft was negotiated within the government in 2011. A lot of lobby over the Congress was carried out especially against the articles about net neutrality and internet service providers liability (both by telecommunication companies and the intellectual property industries, but mainly the former - they wanted all internet service providers to be obliged to remove content under a simple notification claiming the content should be removed. Internet civil rights activists claimed for the need of a justice decision about that). The case of NSA spying Brazil http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html made the government become fonder of the Marco Civil bill, fostering its approval in the Congress. Since the first draft of the bill, some aspects were lost, but the bill remains important and mostly beneficial to internet rights in my opinion. It's been a long process, with lots of threats to this initiative, but in the end the balance seems good. Good the the freedom of expression and good for net neutrality. Best regards Oona [1] http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ [2] http://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/ [3]
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet rights approved in Brazil
Yei! That's something that must be replied in many countries. Congratulations Brazil. 2014-04-23 17:20 GMT-05:00 Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvare...@okfn.org: Now YES we can celebrate. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/04/23/brazil-marcocivil-netmundial2014-senate-approves-bill/ Cheers! Tom 2014-03-26 12:05 GMT-07:00 Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com: Fair enough, you're right. There is a long path yet ahead. The government is expecting to be able to sanction/sign it during NetMundialhttp://netmundial.br/meeting and has invested a lot on negotiations to make it real. Let's wait and see how far it can go. For those interested in regulation related matters, I'm attaching a draft version in English made by Raquel Gatto from ISOC Brazil and shared by Carolina Rossini, whom some of you might know. Oona On 26 March 2014 03:30, Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvare...@okfn.org wrote: Humm let's wait until the bill become a *law*. This is an important step, but we still need a lot of work here. When our access to information law [1] were approved by the chamber of deputies, its bill got stuck in the senate for a looong time. It was really, really hard to have any civil society influence to have it approved. I didn't believe when I saw it happening - as Spain, Brazil was one of the last big democracies without an access to information law. Now we have to analyse the senate situation and *if* it will be approved with the actual configuration. It is possible the bill will have to pass on several commissions and, if any lobbyist find its amable senator, this bill can easily get stuck. And we are in the presidential elections year, thus if eveything goes as usual, the law will likely be approved only next year. And if the presidential situation changes (workers party go out of the power, which is be very constrained with the world cup results, as incredible it can be for a gringo), things can change a lot regarding the actual political scenario. [1] * https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o* https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2011/lei/l12527.htm 2014-03-26 2:23 GMT-03:00 Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org: Yaho! On Mar 25, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! Subject is not 100% related to Wikimedia, but definitely important for the future of projects like ours. Marco civil da Internet (the Brazilian internet civil rights bill) has just been approved by the Brazilian Congress http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/camara-aprova-marco-civil-da-internet-projeto-segue-para-senado-11984559 . Now the Senate still needs to approve it. The bill has been recently supported http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.[1] Back in 2007, several Brazilian civil society organizations started to fight against bills which were about to be approved creating a penal law over certain uses of internet. This fight led the Brazilian government to build, together with other Brazilian organizations, a request for comment/collaborative platformhttp://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/[2] for the creation of a civil rights bill for the internet. Contributions were gathered together and a first draft was proposed for another round of public comments on 2010. A first draft was negotiated within the government in 2011. A lot of lobby over the Congress was carried out especially against the articles about net neutrality and internet service providers liability (both by telecommunication companies and the intellectual property industries, but mainly the former - they wanted all internet service providers to be obliged to remove content under a simple notification claiming the content should be removed. Internet civil rights activists claimed for the need of a justice decision about that). The case of NSA spying Brazil http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html made the government become fonder of the Marco Civil bill, fostering its approval in the Congress. Since the first draft of the bill, some aspects were lost, but the bill remains important and mostly beneficial to internet rights in my opinion. It's been a long process, with lots of threats to this initiative, but in the end the balance seems good. Good the the freedom of expression and good
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet rights approved in Brazil
Humm let's wait until the bill become a *law*. This is an important step, but we still need a lot of work here. When our access to information law [1] were approved by the chamber of deputies, its bill got stuck in the senate for a looong time. It was really, really hard to have any civil society influence to have it approved. I didn't believe when I saw it happening - as Spain, Brazil was one of the last big democracies without an access to information law. Now we have to analyse the senate situation and *if* it will be approved with the actual configuration. It is possible the bill will have to pass on several commissions and, if any lobbyist find its amable senator, this bill can easily get stuck. And we are in the presidential elections year, thus if eveything goes as usual, the law will likely be approved only next year. And if the presidential situation changes (workers party go out of the power, which is be very constrained with the world cup results, as incredible it can be for a gringo), things can change a lot regarding the actual political scenario. [1] *https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o*https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2011/lei/l12527.htm 2014-03-26 2:23 GMT-03:00 Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org: Yaho! On Mar 25, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! Subject is not 100% related to Wikimedia, but definitely important for the future of projects like ours. Marco civil da Internet (the Brazilian internet civil rights bill) has just been approved by the Brazilian Congress http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/camara-aprova-marco-civil-da-internet-projeto-segue-para-senado-11984559 . Now the Senate still needs to approve it. The bill has been recently supported http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.[1] Back in 2007, several Brazilian civil society organizations started to fight against bills which were about to be approved creating a penal law over certain uses of internet. This fight led the Brazilian government to build, together with other Brazilian organizations, a request for comment/collaborative platformhttp://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/[2] for the creation of a civil rights bill for the internet. Contributions were gathered together and a first draft was proposed for another round of public comments on 2010. A first draft was negotiated within the government in 2011. A lot of lobby over the Congress was carried out especially against the articles about net neutrality and internet service providers liability (both by telecommunication companies and the intellectual property industries, but mainly the former - they wanted all internet service providers to be obliged to remove content under a simple notification claiming the content should be removed. Internet civil rights activists claimed for the need of a justice decision about that). The case of NSA spying Brazil http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html made the government become fonder of the Marco Civil bill, fostering its approval in the Congress. Since the first draft of the bill, some aspects were lost, but the bill remains important and mostly beneficial to internet rights in my opinion. It's been a long process, with lots of threats to this initiative, but in the end the balance seems good. Good the the freedom of expression and good for net neutrality. Best regards Oona [1] http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ [2] http://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/ [3] http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html Other links: a. Research about media piracy - the Brazilian chapter brings the history of the Marco Civil da Internet by 2010. - http://piracy.americanassembly.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/MPEE-PDF-1.0.4.pdf b. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/01/brazil-legislate-online-civil-rights-snowden c. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/02/19/amendments-to-brazils-bill-of-rights-for-internet-users-jeopardizes-privacy/ d. https://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/03/12/brazil-marcocivil-bill-of-rights/ e. https://twitter.com/marcocivil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:
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Fair enough, you're right. There is a long path yet ahead. The government is expecting to be able to sanction/sign it during NetMundialhttp://netmundial.br/meeting and has invested a lot on negotiations to make it real. Let's wait and see how far it can go. For those interested in regulation related matters, I'm attaching a draft version in English made by Raquel Gatto from ISOC Brazil and shared by Carolina Rossini, whom some of you might know. Oona On 26 March 2014 03:30, Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvare...@okfn.org wrote: Humm let's wait until the bill become a *law*. This is an important step, but we still need a lot of work here. When our access to information law [1] were approved by the chamber of deputies, its bill got stuck in the senate for a looong time. It was really, really hard to have any civil society influence to have it approved. I didn't believe when I saw it happening - as Spain, Brazil was one of the last big democracies without an access to information law. Now we have to analyse the senate situation and *if* it will be approved with the actual configuration. It is possible the bill will have to pass on several commissions and, if any lobbyist find its amable senator, this bill can easily get stuck. And we are in the presidential elections year, thus if eveything goes as usual, the law will likely be approved only next year. And if the presidential situation changes (workers party go out of the power, which is be very constrained with the world cup results, as incredible it can be for a gringo), things can change a lot regarding the actual political scenario. [1] *https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o* https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2011/lei/l12527.htm 2014-03-26 2:23 GMT-03:00 Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org: Yaho! On Mar 25, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! Subject is not 100% related to Wikimedia, but definitely important for the future of projects like ours. Marco civil da Internet (the Brazilian internet civil rights bill) has just been approved by the Brazilian Congress http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/camara-aprova-marco-civil-da-internet-projeto-segue-para-senado-11984559 . Now the Senate still needs to approve it. The bill has been recently supported http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.[1] Back in 2007, several Brazilian civil society organizations started to fight against bills which were about to be approved creating a penal law over certain uses of internet. This fight led the Brazilian government to build, together with other Brazilian organizations, a request for comment/collaborative platformhttp://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/[2] for the creation of a civil rights bill for the internet. Contributions were gathered together and a first draft was proposed for another round of public comments on 2010. A first draft was negotiated within the government in 2011. A lot of lobby over the Congress was carried out especially against the articles about net neutrality and internet service providers liability (both by telecommunication companies and the intellectual property industries, but mainly the former - they wanted all internet service providers to be obliged to remove content under a simple notification claiming the content should be removed. Internet civil rights activists claimed for the need of a justice decision about that). The case of NSA spying Brazil http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html made the government become fonder of the Marco Civil bill, fostering its approval in the Congress. Since the first draft of the bill, some aspects were lost, but the bill remains important and mostly beneficial to internet rights in my opinion. It's been a long process, with lots of threats to this initiative, but in the end the balance seems good. Good the the freedom of expression and good for net neutrality. Best regards Oona [1] http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ [2] http://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/ [3] http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html Other links: a. Research about media piracy - the Brazilian chapter brings the history of the Marco Civil da Internet by 2010. - http://piracy.americanassembly.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/MPEE-PDF-1.0.4.pdf b.
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet rights approved in Brazil
Excellent! \o/ A. On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! Subject is not 100% related to Wikimedia, but definitely important for the future of projects like ours. Marco civil da Internet (the Brazilian internet civil rights bill) has just been approved by the Brazilian Congress http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/camara-aprova-marco-civil-da-internet-projeto-segue-para-senado-11984559 . Now the Senate still needs to approve it. The bill has been recently supported http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.[1] Back in 2007, several Brazilian civil society organizations started to fight against bills which were about to be approved creating a penal law over certain uses of internet. This fight led the Brazilian government to build, together with other Brazilian organizations, a request for comment/collaborative platformhttp://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/[2] for the creation of a civil rights bill for the internet. Contributions were gathered together and a first draft was proposed for another round of public comments on 2010. A first draft was negotiated within the government in 2011. A lot of lobby over the Congress was carried out especially against the articles about net neutrality and internet service providers liability (both by telecommunication companies and the intellectual property industries, but mainly the former - they wanted all internet service providers to be obliged to remove content under a simple notification claiming the content should be removed. Internet civil rights activists claimed for the need of a justice decision about that). The case of NSA spying Brazil http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html made the government become fonder of the Marco Civil bill, fostering its approval in the Congress. Since the first draft of the bill, some aspects were lost, but the bill remains important and mostly beneficial to internet rights in my opinion. It's been a long process, with lots of threats to this initiative, but in the end the balance seems good. Good the the freedom of expression and good for net neutrality. Best regards Oona [1] http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ [2] http://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/ [3] http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html Other links: a. Research about media piracy - the Brazilian chapter brings the history of the Marco Civil da Internet by 2010. - http://piracy.americanassembly.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/MPEE-PDF-1.0.4.pdf b. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/01/brazil-legislate-online-civil-rights-snowden c. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/02/19/amendments-to-brazils-bill-of-rights-for-internet-users-jeopardizes-privacy/ d. https://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/03/12/brazil-marcocivil-bill-of-rights/ e. https://twitter.com/marcocivil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet rights approved in Brazil
Yaho! On Mar 25, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! Subject is not 100% related to Wikimedia, but definitely important for the future of projects like ours. Marco civil da Internet (the Brazilian internet civil rights bill) has just been approved by the Brazilian Congresshttp://oglobo.globo.com/pais/camara-aprova-marco-civil-da-internet-projeto-segue-para-senado-11984559. Now the Senate still needs to approve it. The bill has been recently supported http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.[1] Back in 2007, several Brazilian civil society organizations started to fight against bills which were about to be approved creating a penal law over certain uses of internet. This fight led the Brazilian government to build, together with other Brazilian organizations, a request for comment/collaborative platformhttp://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/[2] for the creation of a civil rights bill for the internet. Contributions were gathered together and a first draft was proposed for another round of public comments on 2010. A first draft was negotiated within the government in 2011. A lot of lobby over the Congress was carried out especially against the articles about net neutrality and internet service providers liability (both by telecommunication companies and the intellectual property industries, but mainly the former - they wanted all internet service providers to be obliged to remove content under a simple notification claiming the content should be removed. Internet civil rights activists claimed for the need of a justice decision about that). The case of NSA spying Brazilhttp://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.htmlmade the government become fonder of the Marco Civil bill, fostering its approval in the Congress. Since the first draft of the bill, some aspects were lost, but the bill remains important and mostly beneficial to internet rights in my opinion. It's been a long process, with lots of threats to this initiative, but in the end the balance seems good. Good the the freedom of expression and good for net neutrality. Best regards Oona [1] http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ [2] http://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/ [3] http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html Other links: a. Research about media piracy - the Brazilian chapter brings the history of the Marco Civil da Internet by 2010. - http://piracy.americanassembly.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/MPEE-PDF-1.0.4.pdf b. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/01/brazil-legislate-online-civil-rights-snowden c. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/02/19/amendments-to-brazils-bill-of-rights-for-internet-users-jeopardizes-privacy/ d. https://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/03/12/brazil-marcocivil-bill-of-rights/ e. https://twitter.com/marcocivil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
