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Brazil: When the justice doesn't get the Internet

Thursday, March 27th, 2008 @ 11:26 UTC

by Paula Góes

Countries:: Brazil
Topics:: Elections, Law
Languages:: Portuguese

Idelber [pt] is finding a new resolution by the Brazilian Superior Electoral Court hard to believe. It rules that any campaign for the 2008 local elections will only be allowed from July 6, even in the Internet. The blogger asks: “If someone decides to campaign for their candidate in his own blog before that, what will they do? Take the blog down? Withdraw one's candidature? The article 18 is the most unbelievable piece: the electoral campaign on the Internet will only be allowed on the candidates' page intended solely to the election campaign.”

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March 30th, 2008 at 14:41 pm
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[...] Avelar [pt] was probably the first blogger to raise the issue by analysing the above mentioned articles and concluding that netizens' [...]

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