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Freedom of expression violations on the online environment

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AutorHeloisa Padija, Julia Lima and Laura Tresca
Páginas46-48

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See notes 19, 20 and 21

On the online environment, freedom of expression violations can be deined out of the wide range of variables which are commonly linked to the web, such as web neutrality violations, surveillance practices, restrictions to ile sharing, among others. Besides the speciic violations, serious Internet-related crimes, such as homicides, attempted murders, death threats, kidnaps and disappearances, are also frequent.

What has been traditionally associated to journalism is now extended to people that elected the Internet as their main tool of expression, for instance, bloggers, owners or editors of websites and Internet users. There are notable signs which indicate that those violations have the potential of getting more and more intense against these communicators, who are generally individuals acting autonomously, without any support from the big companies of the communications sector. This reality is not an exclusive trace of a single country; it certainly corresponds to a regional panorama. Thus, bloggers’ and users’ rights to protect themselves and to fully assure their right to freedom of expression on the Internet become an emergent theme concerning web governance in the region.[1]

In 2012, Article 19 did the entire registration of the gravest cases of freedom of expression violations on the online environment in Brazil and produced a report called "Threats on the web" ("Ameaças na rede"). The report aimed to characterize and to dimension the challenges of online freedom of expression in Brazil through the victim’s perspective and accounts. Unfortunately, the threats exceed the scope of judicial censorship. Journalists and bloggers are victims of frequent physical aggression, death threats and murders because of what they say on the Internet.

Article 19’s research found sixteen cases of serious threats to freedom of expression in 2012. It is important to notice that it was performed an investigation in which the cases made available to the media or

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communicated directly to the research team were monitored and posthumously analyzed. Hence, despite all the efforts, the "threats on the web" report is not exhaustive: there may be cases which weren’t spotted or communicated to the organization.

The sixteen registered cases of serious threats correspond to three homicides, three attempted murders and ten death threats against communicators that disseminated information, ideas and opinions on the web. The...

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