The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Brazilian Internet Bill of Rights

PAPER SERIES: NO. 19 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; SEPTEMBER 2015

The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Brazilian Internet Bill of Rights: Examining a Human Rights Framework for the Internet Carolina Rossini, Francisco Brito Cruz and Danilo Doneda

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The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Brazilian Internet Bill of Rights

Published on Sep 29, 2015

Centre for International Governance Innovation

The Marco Civil da Internet (MCI) — also known variously as the Brazilian Internet Bill of Rights, Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet or the Internet constitution — was approved in Brazil in April 2014 after more than seven years of intense national and international debate and a series of postponed votes in the Brazilian Congress. It established rights of Internet users, state obligations to foster Internet use, and duties and liabilities of companies — both Internet connection providers and Internet application providers. This paper takes the methodologies first developed by former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression Frank La Rue and applies them to the MCI as a first step toward evaluating its treatment of human rights online.

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