Brazil's - Marco Civil - Internet Civil Rights Law Finally Passes, With Key Protections Largely Intact

Posted by BernardSwiss on Mar 28, 2014 8:54 AM EDT
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We first wrote about Brazil's 'Marco Civil' back in October 2011, when we described it as a kind of "anti-ACTA". That's because it was designed to protect online rights, not diminish them, and was the product of a democratic and transparent process, not of secret corporate lobbying...

... Precisely because it was not yet another corporate wishlist, but sought to enshrine fundamental user rights, it was fiercely attacked by an array of industries. In November 2012, it looked like Marco Civil had been killed off by the lobbyists, but in 2013 it showed signs of life again. Now comes the good news that it has finally passed a key vote in Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies; significantly, digital activism once more played a crucial role:

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It's not hard to understand at all. jdixon 3 1,192 Mar 28, 2014 4:35 PM

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