First France, Now Brazil Unveils Plan to Empower the Government to Censor the Internet in the Name of Stopping “Fake News”

""Depuis l’avènement de l’Internet, le seul danger considéré comme le plus menaçant était que les États et les entreprises prennent le contrôle du contenu politique que l’on peut exprimer.
Peu importe à quel point ces justifications sont attrayantes ou manipulatrices -"nous devons arrêter les fausses nouvelles" - conférer ce type de contrôle est exactement ce que ces nouvelles propositions sont destinées à faire.
Elles sont déjà apparues dans deux des pays les plus importants et les plus influents d’Europe et d’Amérique du Sud, ainsi que dans le pays le plus peuplé du monde. leur croissance est seulement dans son stade naissant."

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First France, Now Brazil Unveils Plan to Empower the Government to Censor the Internet in the Name of Stopping “Fake News”
►https://theintercept.com/2018/01/10/first-france-now-brazil-unveils-plans-to-empower-the-government-to-cen

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YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, THE official Twitter account of Brazil’s Federal Police (its FBI equivalent) posted an extraordinary announcement. The bureaucratically nonchalant tone it used belied its significance. The tweet, at its core, purports to vest in the federal police and the federal government that oversees it the power to regulate, control, and outright censor political content on the internet that is assessed to be “false,” and to “punish” those who disseminate it. The new power would cover both social media posts and entire websites devoted to politics.

“In the next few days, the Federal Police will begin activities in Brasília [the nation’s capital] by a specially formed group to combat false news during the [upcoming 2018 presidential] election process,” the official police tweet stated. It added: “The measures are intended to identify and punish the authors of ‘fake news’ for or against candidates.” Top police officials told media outlets that their working group would include representatives of the judiciary’s election branch and leading prosecutors, though one of the key judicial figures involved is the highly controversial right-wing Supreme Court judge, Gilmar Mendes, who has long blurred judicial authority with his political activism.