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The original version of this article (in Portuguese) was published by the Brasil Post

The Internet is a quasi-feudal environment. In order to access the Internet you have to accept the contractual provisions unilaterally defined by your telecom operator. In order to use online applications and services, you have to accept the term of service unilaterally defined by the service providers.…

Two weeks ago, the Secretariat of the United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum (IGF) approved the creation of the Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility (DC PR). This new component of the IGF will provide a discussion arena aimed at the analysis of the relations between internationally recognised Human Rights and…

Dear all,

I would like to share with you the report on “Protecting Human Rights through Network Neutrality” that I drafted together with Matthijs van Bergen for the Council of Europe. One month ago, we presented this report to the CoE Steering Committee on Media and Information Society (CDMSI), which agreed to use it as a basis for the work of the Committee of Experts on Cross-Border Flow…

I would like to thank Diplo for the endorsement as candidate to the MAG and all the Diplo community members that have participated to the poll. As any democratic exercise, its strength is within the people that invest time in organising, participating and engaging into the process.

Although Diplo candidates are not supposed to represent Diplo within the MAG, I will be glad to convey the…