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A comment on Brazil Drafts An 'Anti-ACTA': A Civil Rights-Based Framework For The Internet.

Re:Brazil Drafts An 'Anti-ACTA': A Civil Rights-Based Framew... by joaopedro on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @08:14AM (#3075247)
You know what's weird? I'm brazilian, I follow up this kind of content and I just found out about this here on Hacker News. I haven't seem an article about this in any of the big portals.

Anyway, IMHO, one of the most important parts of the bill are the Article 14 and Article 15. I've seen some increase in bloggers getting sued because of other people's comments on their blog, and the problem also spits out on social networks and other user generated content sites every now and then. Finally we get a sign that someone is looking into that.

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Re:Brazil Drafts An 'Anti-ACTA': A Civil Rights-Based Framew... by dizidoro on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @08:18AM (#3075260)
Me too! the mainstream midia in Brasil is in really bad shape.
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Re:Brazil Drafts An 'Anti-ACTA': A Civil Rights-Based Framew... by rbanffy on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @08:56AM (#3075368)
Mainstream media is in bad shape everywhere and Brazil is no exception. Unfortunately our media outlets appear to make extra efforts not to anger current government (whatever the current government is).

You want an example? It took weeks for Occupy Wall St to be mentioned on CNN. I don't remember I saw anything on the police abuse happening there either.

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Re:Brazil Drafts An 'Anti-ACTA': A Civil Rights-Based Framew... by gldalmaso on Thursday October 06, 2011 @12:24PM (#3080645)
Our mainstream media would rather go bankrupt than saying anything positive about Brazil, reasons being extremely political though not allegedely.

Seek alternative media for information.

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