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>
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.…
b.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/01/brazil-legislate-online-civil-…
c.
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/02/19/amendments-to-brazils-bill-of-righ…
d.
https://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/03/12/brazil-marcocivil-bill-of-rights/
e.
https://twitter.com/marcocivil
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