Governments have commented there too.
Oona
On 23 April 2014 19:57, Salvador A <salvador1983(a)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.alvarenga(a)okfn.org>gt;:
Now YES we can celebrate.
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/04/23/brazil-marcocivil-netmundial2014-s…
Cheers!
Tom
2014-03-26 12:05 GMT-07:00 Oona Castro <oonacastro(a)gmail.com>om>:
Fair enough, you're right. There is a long
path yet ahead. The
government
> is expecting to be able to sanction/sign it during
> NetMundial<http://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.alvarenga(a)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*
http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2011/lei/l12527.htm
> >
> >
> > 2014-03-26 2:23 GMT-03:00 Victor Grigas <vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:
> >
> > > Yahooooo!
> > >
> > > > On Mar 25, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Oona Castro
<oonacastro(a)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-…
> >.
> > 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-…
> > > >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-st…
> > > >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-…
http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-st…
> >
> > 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.…
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/01/brazil-legislate-online-civil-…
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/02/19/amendments-to-brazils-bill-of-righ…
https://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/03/12/brazil-marcocivil-bill-of-rights/
> > > > e.
https://twitter.com/marcocivil
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