Yahooooo! > 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 > platform<http://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>
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