Comments on: Brazil Again: Blogs Banished from 2007 PanAm Games in Rio

By: Global Voices Online » Brazil: About the 2007 Rio Pan-American Games

Global Voices Online » Brazil: About the 2007 Rio Pan-American Games — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:43:42 +0000

[...] restrictions on athlete’s blogs had already indicated the event’s organizer’s broadcast-only leanings. Indeed, the TV [...]

By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Free Kareem: Lusophone Blogs Join the Crusade

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:32:17 +0000

[...] As soon as the information about the verdict circulated on the net, Portuguese posts commenting the 4 year in prison sentence given to blogger Abdel Kareem Suleiman started to appear. Brazilian bloggers sensitiveness about any situation involving censorship is a direct consequence of the many recent attacks to their freedoms on the Internet, as showed by previous GV reports here, here, here, and also here. That’s why they are ever ready to take a stance and fight to maintain a status they believe they’ve already conquered for themselves. In addition, Kareem’s case brings in some reflexions about how different might be the Arab culture in relation to the freedom notions Brazilians are now practicing through blogging. [...]

By: Danilo

Danilo — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:16:54 +0000

Wow, at this day and age such bans still do occur. But really I would like to know how this could be done with such a vast amount of ways one can publich content online.

By: Marmota, mais dos mesmos » Internet, Pan e os donos dos direitos - Marmota . org

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:58:06 +0000

[...] o bom trabalho no blog. Sauda��es”. Quem tem que agradecer sou eu, Jos�! Marmota colocou este post no ar �s 12h54 Vejamais [...]

By: Jose Murilo Junior

Jose Murilo Junior — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:15:26 +0000

Hello Jordan,
Thanks for the comment. I think old media's business models are rapdly becoming unsuitable to cope with the new possibilities presented by user participation on the web, and the latest controversies in Brazil are somehow evidencing the trend. My suggestion would be that the energy spent by corporate media in trying to control these evolvements should be focused on rethinking their social role in 'our' brave new environment. I agree with the guy from 'Marmota, e mais dos mesmos', who says:

"It’s already past the time for those rights’ owners, broadcasters, recording companies and all the entepreneurs dealing with information need to rethink their business models.'
Internet, Pan, and the rigths’ owners - Marmota, e mais dos mesmos

By: …My heart’s in Accra » links for 2007-01-30

…My heart’s in Accra » links for 2007-01-30 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:26:23 +0000

[...] Global Voices Online ? Blog Archive ? Brazil Again: Blogs Banished from 2007 PanAm Games in Rio Jose Murillo has an excellent post, translating from Portuguese, showing Brazilian frustration at rules designed to prevent the blogging and vlogging of the Pan-American games, to be hosted in Brazil in a few months (tags: brazil freespeech blogs globalvoices) [...]

By: jordan

jordan — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:00:10 +0000

nice post! i can’t believe that the committee cannot see the advantages to being a bit more liberal…sorry, but the web2.0 genie is already out of the bottle and there’s no putting him back inside…but maybe a balance does need to be struck among all stakeholders? i’m sure that advertisers are paying a pretty penny to have their products shown on national tv, so there are some legitimate concerns, i think, and you?

By: Dave Lucas >> No Blogging @ 2007 Pan Am Games in Rio?

Dave Lucas >> No Blogging @ 2007 Pan Am Games in Rio? — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:46:56 +0000

[..]Depending on what you read, there will or will not be blogging taking place at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio. Community online blogger Maki Papadopoulos: Today I got some great news from the Canadian Olympic Committee! Community-online.com has been granted a total of five (5) media accreditations for the coverage of the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro (July 13-29).[..]