Brazil's Internet Bill of Rights

In April 2014, Web luminaries Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf joined over 850 academics, government officials and activists in São Paulo to attend NETmundial, Brazil’s unique Internet forum. At the opening ceremony, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff signed into law the Marco Civil da Internet (Civil Rights Framework for the Internet), which established a groundbreaking Internet bill of rights for Latin America’s largest digital economy. While the event appeared perfectly scripted, the bill’s journey to becoming law was so rocky that its future was still uncertain only hours...

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