terça-feira, 16 de agosto de 2011

Society must reject the AI-5 Digital

Antonio Carlos Ribeiro

The Project of Law (PL) 84/99, proposed by Senator Eduardo Azeredo of Minas Gerais, the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB / MG), in order to classify crimes on the Internet, being processed in a matter of urgency in five committees of Parliament.
Presented to the House of Representatives in 1999 and approved four years later, the bill went to the Senate, where he received a text box that replaces the author himself, then a senator, was approved and forwarded again to the House.



What seemed to be agile is completing 12 years now and is working on an emergency basis, a committee of Science and Technology, Communication and Computing, Constitution, Justice and Citizenship, Public Safety and Combating Organized Crime, which is expected to head to floor vote.

If the parliamentary parties and contrary to substitute approve amendments that suppress get proposals approved in the Senate could get a result at least tolerable, since the sector has made so many advances and society so many achievements that the parliamentarians themselves in cahoots with the media feel threatened.

The shock is given by the contradiction between the achievements and increasingly reactionary interests of those who want to control information and make a profit without measure, without the vigilance of civil society.

But if the Senate by virtue of those legislators who use the state to confer a commercial advantage and corporate get a rejection in full, you lose the gains already made.

On the other hand, sectors such as civil society and academia - are directly affected by legislation, were priced out of the debate in the same period they grew up politically - must contribute to the debate now, which have been these 12 years.

The proposal was based on the Budapest Convention, which dealt on the subject of cyber crime, and was signed a few months after the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center in 2001. It aimed to curb cyber crime.

The advancement of citizenship, academic community and the new mentality of Science and Technology of the current government in relation to the backward mentality can be compared to the passage of centuries, considering the pace of cyberculture and the changes that Brazil experienced during the last decade.

In the PL under discussion, the justification for approving the Convention ensure the interests of large corporations and governments to end network neutrality and thus control access to the internet - keeping the strategy of using state law and against the interests citizens' brand of corporate and commercial sectors - and the right to punish opinion.

Ms Luiza Erundina, of Brazilian Socialist Party of São Paulo (PSB-SP), tried to contain the risks to freedom of expression and made a deal with Mr Eduardo Azeredo, offering a seminar on the subject before the vote on the text commissions. The application for public debate was presented in July 28 and awaits response.

Prepared in a matter of urgency and pace of Western reaction to the attacks in the U.S., the law has a general defensive approach. If the law passes as it is today, according to the Brazilian Institute of Consumer Defense (Idec), it will criminalize everyday actions such as managing a blog, scan films and music, and unlock cards and cell phones, creating obstacles to activities relevant for development as open networks (P2P), research and the use of copyrighted works today sources of information and education for citizenship already conquered.

The debate on the civil mark for Internet still follows the rhythm arithmetic backward sectors such as banking and politics, reflected in the Federal Congress, which slow the maturity needed to propose laws that criminalize crimes worldwide network of computers and regulate the sector, without tying the society of pre-modernity.

The Brazilian society claim points in civil mark of using the Internet prior to the debate on the importance of Law Azeredo, the rights to free access to internet, net neutrality, the creation of rules of civil liability for providers and users, and measures to ensure freedom of expression and privacy.

The petition by Mr José Emiliano, the Workers Party of Bahia (PT-BA), to the chairman of the Science and Technology, Mr Bruno Araujo (PSDB-SP), the proposal is contrary in force on Internet crimes. It already has 163 signatures of representatives from business, civil and academic.

The Internet and industries such as Science and Technology, Communication, Public Safety and Combating Organized Crime are very serious mechanisms to evade surveillance society. Finally, Brazil can not give up the advances civil, won with great effort, after decades of dictatorship.

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