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Brazil: Blogs Censored in the Electoral Process

Monday, August 28th, 2006 @ 10:57 UTC

by Jose Murilo

Countries:: Brazil
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Elections

The Brazilian blogosphere is protesting that a blog from Amapá state was inexplicably brought down by its ISP (uol.com.br) even after it complied with an order from the Electoral Justice system. The blog ‘Repiquete no Meio do Mundo‘ was forced to take off the picture of a wall painted with a caricature of the senate candidate José Sarney (a former Brazilian president), and the censored blogger's sister [also a blogger] is now facing the same pressure. Bloggers want to know why ‘Repiquete no Meio do Mundo‘ is down, and the protest is growing.

3 comments

Saramar

Very good, my friend.
Thank you very much.
Kisses

# 2006-08-28 at 14:18 pm

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Rebecca MacKinnon

Thanks for sharing this with us Jose. I look forward to reading more updates on this issue. By the way the blog can be seen through its Google cache at: http://tinyurl.com/lgxjj
(Or go to Google, type in the name of the blog, then click on “Cached” under the first result.)

# 2006-08-28 at 18:13 pm

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