Internet Regulation and Sexual Politics in Brazil

In Brazil, the agitation of public anxieties about child pornography has become pivotal for recent legal initiatives to control Internet traffic, which affect Internet users’ privacy and freedom of expression. However, cyber activist protests against those measures and alternative regulation proposa...

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Published in:Development (Society for International Development) 2012-06, Vol.55 (2), p.213-218
Main Authors: Corrêa, Sonia, Sívori, Horacio, Zilli, Bruno
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abortion
Activism
Activists
Brazil
Children & youth
Civil law
Criminal law
Debates
Democracy
Demonstrations & protests
Development and Social Change
Development Economics
Development Policy
Development Studies
Freedom of speech
Gender
Human rights
Internet
Internet access
Internet security
Local/Global Encounters
Pedophilia
Political activism
Political power
Pornography
Privacy protection
Regulation
Sex crimes
Sexual abuse
Sexual behavior
Sexuality
Social networks
Social Sciences
Teenagers
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Summary:In Brazil, the agitation of public anxieties about child pornography has become pivotal for recent legal initiatives to control Internet traffic, which affect Internet users’ privacy and freedom of expression. However, cyber activist protests against those measures and alternative regulation proposals have not reverberated to feminist and LGBT interests in the Internet. Sonia Corrêa, Horacio Sı´vori and Bruno Zilli argue that evidence of sexual community building on social networking platforms calls for new approaches to the exercise of sexual freedom online and off-line.
ISSN:1011-6370
1461-7072
DOI:10.1057/dev.2012.4