Governments that aspire to oppressiveness love to restrict the flow of information and communication, and that’s happening in Brazil right now. The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies is considering legislation to control internet access.
Next week, Congress could vote to radically restrict internet freedom in Brazil — criminalizing everyday online activities like sharing music and restricting fundamental blogging tools. We have just six days to stop them.
Public pressure defeated an attack on internet freedom in 2009, and we can do it again! The bill is in three committees in the Chamber of Deputies to stop the bill from passing. These politicians are carefully watching public response to the proposed bill in the days leading up to the big vote — now is our chance to launch a national outcry and force them to protect internet freedoms.
Brazil has over 75 million internet users — we can be deafening if we join together. Send a message now to leaders of the Constitution and Justice, Science and Technology, and Public Safety Committees, then share it with your friends and family across Brazil!
Sign the petition and save Brazil’s internet!
We had a close call here in Aust with Communications Minister for the current Gon’t, Chris Conroy trying to impose an internet filter at the national level. It got shouted down but is still lurking in the halls of the Labour Gov’t waiting to be fed again.
Thanks fo spreading the news PZ.
We Brazilians already have enough problems with our politicians stealing our money to build stupid soccer stadiums for the 2014 world cup. We surelly don’t need that crappy internet legislation.
The internet needs to be classified as a cybernation separate from any Earth nation. Then no law of an Earth nation could restrict, or order, or whatever activities on the internet.
This seems like an entirely reasonable idea, right?!
I am Brazilian, but being an expat, I was not aware that this was going. Thanks to you, I could join in and sign the petition – really, thank you. Some polititians in Brazil are beyond belief – and this fellow (Azeredo) is Labor, for crying out loud…this is something one’d expect from a right-wing nut.
I find it a little sad that this issue appears to be coming up more and more frequently.
That petition needs more help. Please sign.
Antifia says:
I’m not sure if I understood you correctly, but Eduardo Azeredo is a Social Democrat, not Labour.
Isn’t there a movie roughly on this topic with the same name? -.-
It is a very telling thing that the nations on Earth that ban and filter via the internet do it as quietly as their government system allows. It makes things harder for that nations citizens but all such bans tend to be leaky sieves. However complacency about the difficulty of blocking communication could be our downfall in the world of free thought. Get out there, sign the petition, make noise!
Signed.
Found a little tree frog in the top of the bee hive today. Apparently this isn’t that uncommon. The bees didn’t seem to mind.
whoops, wrong thread
If Wikileaks has taught me anything, it’s that if this bill is beneficial to the USA or it’s big Companies it will go through.
Aah, so that’s why our (Canada’s) fundamentalist Prime Minister was in Brazil this week. Picking up some tips….