Imminent Server Seizure Tests Brazil's New Internet Bill of Rights 52
sunbird (96442) writes "Less than one week after passing the Marco Civil da Internet, Article 3 of which purports to protect free expression and privacy of personal data from government intrusion, a Public Prosecutor in Brazil is seeking to seize a server hosting research groups, social movements, discussion lists and other tools. The server is hosted by the Saravá Group, which has adopted a policy of not storing connection logs to protect the privacy of users. The Public Prosecutor is seeking to identify individuals involved in Rádio Mudo, a project hosted by Saravá, but as Saravá does not store logs, there is no information on the server that is responsive to the investigation. This action comes as Brazil seeks to place itself in the forefront of protecting internet privacy after it hosted the Net Mundial conference. Saravá has called for a protest action today at 1PM local time (9AM PT/12noonET) to protest against the seizure."
The station is called Radio Muda (Score:3, Informative)
Muda, not Mudo.
This misspelling changed the meaning from Change Radio to Mute Radio. WTF submitter and editors, this is not rocket science.
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I thought it was Radio Menudo.
No, that's a bunch of tripe!
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Mute radio is pretty funny though.
All music all the time!
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I get mute radio for free. lots of it, for everyone. its in the /dev/zero device.
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Re:The station is called Radio Muda (Score:4, Funny)
Muda, not Mudo.
This misspelling changed the meaning from Change Radio to Mute Radio. WTF submitter and editors, this is not rocket science.
That is just what the government is trying to turn it into.
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"Rádio Muda" in Portuguese could be translated both as Mute Radio or Change Radio. Portughese adjectives flexes with gender, an since radio is a female noun, the correct form of mute would be "muda", not "mudo". It may be an intended pun.
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HDD were seized this afternoon (Score:5, Informative)
Like most governments... (Score:5, Informative)
All the noises they;ve made about protecting rights and speech are just lies. They are desperately trying to look like a "people first" nation in the run up to the FIFA World Cup, to counter and quell the unrest at home relating to the spiralling cost of hosting the tournament.
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The people are also hypocrites, it works both ways.
I don't even know that they were lies (Score:4, Insightful)
So much as just being full of shit. What I mean by that is that people in general, but governments in particular seem to be great at doublethink. They can seem to hold two different contradictory opinions in their head. So governments hate, HATE the idea of other governments spying on them and their citizens. They don't like foreign governments messing with their businesses, either.
However they see no problem when they do it. They don't even find it hypocritical. It is IMPORTANT and NECESSARY when they do it, you see. Not at all like those assholes in other countries!
I think that is probably what is going on with Brazil. They see the US's actions as deplorable, their own actions as essential. They really don't see a dichotomy there.
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they are full of shit. .
Correct. As someone who was born and grew up in Latin America, Brazil (and all the governments and politicians south of the border) are full of shit. It is all talk about liberty, freedoms and crap. They are not the enlightened, poor-caring technocrats they like to paint themselves for the ruminant masses.
People in the US complain about its political classes and the disinterested voting masses. Ha! Latin America is much, much worse than that. I used to dream it would change. It won't. Not in my life time.
"Net neutrality" (Score:2)
The law was passed with the "intention" of being the Brazilian "net neutrality" law. However, its chapter 1, article 1, paragraph 8 reads: "VIII - a liberdade dos modelos de negócios promovidos na Internet, desde que não conflitem com os demais princípios estabelecidos nesta Lei."
Freely translating, that could be read as "the freedom to shape internet businesses, as long as it doesn't conflict with the rest of this Law."
Chapter 3, article 9, paragraph 1 later states that net traffic may only
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The problem is that it cannot be analyzed in a vacuum. Yes, in a vacuum it's just a free service being offered if you have a plan. But that's the first step into making things a lot worse. And quite frankly, Brazil is not known for being good at telling the difference and knowing when to stop the car before it crashes.
Besides that, if you take the law to the letter, you also run into another issue: What if a customer wants to access G+ (why would they do that??) instead of Facebook and Twitter? They have to
Article 3 is OK with lawful collection ... (Score:4, Insightful)
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So what does this Article 3 give you that the law doesn't already?
It lets a candidate say that they voted for the "internet bill of rights" when the time comes for reelection. I don't know about Brazil but here in the U.S. going on record on the "correct" side of an issue is all that is necessary. Our elected officials are only expect to have good intentions, not to actually produce good and effective legislation.
Re: What would you expect? (Score:1)
Only US more corrupt than Brazil.
Not related to Marco Civil or with the not logging (Score:3, Interesting)
Also, the prosecutor is claiming security issues with interference on airplanes. They are a radio inside Brazil's #2 university with top engineers saying there's no way they are causing any safety problems, so that's a blatant lie from the prosecutor.
Eight other radio stations were seized in February. As much as it's a terrible thing and it just shows how the State is used against the people, this is really not related to Marco Civil or the fact that they are not logging anything.
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While this is true, "Radio Muda" has been operating without any sort of permit *REQUEST* for 20 years. Not even for experimental operation, with reduced power. And that's in an University that has a body of at least 100 top-quality EEs in the faculty, some of them IEEE fellows, and they produce at least 40 EE undergraduates and a few EE graduates per year, any of which would be quite capable of drafting a FM broadcasting station permit request in about 8 hours of work if they don't know the ANATEL procedu
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New law starts on June 22th (Score:1)
In Brazil laws come in effect after a period of time after being published (this must be the case with most laws in most countries). Art. 32 of the new law says it will start counting 60 days from being officially published, that will be on June 22th. Here is the link for the law in the government website: L12968 [planalto.gov.br], just go to the very end, it's the last one.
Also, art. 15 states that internet applications (websites/services?) providers that are organized as companies, and provide the application in an organi
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server was seized, almost immediately back online (Score:2)
Here's a communique from SaravÃ:
https://www.sarava.org/en/node... [sarava.org]