I don’t know if I’m getting paranoid, but we are increasingly being victims of “well intentioned” people in Brazil that are slowly restricting our freedoms so much, that in a moment we may have a dictatorial regime in Brazil. The worst thing is that the dictator will be the ignorance and hypocrisy

I doubt that this is someone’s coordinated action and I believe that is the result of initiatives of people who do not see more than his own navel, and immersed in hypocrisy that seems to spread by air in Brazil. They will end up creating a huge legal problem, which will demand a lot, but really a lot of work to be resolved, and is leaving a halfway house for a dictator that one day decide do take control of the things down here.

As those who know me already know, I’m a freedom enthusiast. I don’t call myself as a revolutionary or an anarchist, but I want to defend my and your right to make choices, even if they are not the most recommended choices by everyone. I think this the only way to evolve, and by the way, our country has evolved this way.

When I criticize the hypocrisy and say it is widespread, is because until someone prove me the contrary, every Brazilian is hypocritical. Do not be offended by this, but we are anyway (or someone can give an example of some other country where there is kid of thing called “law that almost never works and never is respected  !!!”).

Therefore, we are discussing and writing laws that, in isolation may even go sounds like a “good idea” but when we look at the whole, this is even ending with the privacy of individuals and restricting their freedoms.

A first example is the controversial project law by Eduardo Azeredo, which proposes a series of absurd and literally ends with the anonymity on the Internet (if you was planning to post a comment here, anonymously, you may think twice… we gonna catch you ). Who uses the Internet to any productive activity knows the importance of anonymity, mainly to disclose his opinion on facts and encouraging discussions in blogs and open lists, without giving a face to slap (to name just one benefit of anonymity).

Worse than that, he proposed the criminalization of a series of activities on the network even before it was set a regulatory framework for the network, exactly the oppose of what was done in all countries that have similar laws.

It is interesting to note that this is to “prevent crimes on the Internet.” OK! Someone please advise the “bad guys”

As far as I know, the most committed crime over the Internet in Brazil is the phishing scan, which reminds me much a joke about a Portuguese virus (sorry PT friends ), as the thief do is almost nothing more than ask the customer, with education, their banking data. It only works here because a lot of unconscious ignores that should not enter their banking password at any site, and also ignores that no bank in Brazil uses email to communicate with customers (and check the hypocrisy here again…) . Want to prevent electronic crimes: EDUCATES PEOPLE!

Last week I’ve heard that a federal comission is proposing a series of measures to access providers, this time to avoid child pornography. These measures includes the monitoring of chat rooms, that does not violate our constitution because it combats something “important for our society.” In other words: a band of relapse fathers and mothers uses the computer  as “a nanny” for their children and leave the kids alone, doing whatever they want on the Internet. To protect them, we will monitor everyone… Saw the hypocrisy there again: EDUCATES PEOPLE!

In this particular case, it is worthwhile to read the recommendations. Who has technical skills on IT, they really sounds like a joke. They speak as if chat tracking software, born in trees or if there is a button on all servers writing “MONITOR.” They simply forget to define how to proceed to require that a child or less of age, access to chat rooms only “for the public aged 14 years or below”… Hypocrisy again?

To follow this recommendation, the access providers will finally monitor everything (I really think that this is a good idea, because “chat room” is to me a vacated badge, doesn’t it?). Just to remember, it all happens a few weeks after the end of an audience leader novel in Brazil, at 9:00 pm everynight, where one of the protagonists was a prostitute/pole dancer in a brothel … that the children can see, OK?

To leave a bit the Internet, I read today what I consider the “cherry” of our cake: a journalist from Folha de Sao Paulo should lose their right to drive for 1 year and pay a fine of nearly US$ 600 for having committed the infraction of driving after having eaten two chocolates with liquor! It is really a danger to society! Thank God we have that good a law to protect us!

Just being crazy or very, very hypocritical to even believe that a law like this is really useful. If it is full acomplished, the Happy Hours are over, the weekends lunches and barbecues ended too and also consumption of alcoholic beverage in Brazil is restricted to households (and even then, only the owner of the residence). It can only be a joke!

It would be easier to leave the previous alcoholic limits as valid ones, but really fiscalize the population? Is that most of automobile accidents caused by drunkenness were caused by drivers who had consumed only two cans of beer? And the cars on the road without any security condition (ok… this does not make money only using a electronic equipment, would have to inspect and this would give a lot of work…)?

As you can see, the proposals outlined above have their value only when it looks to the problem that caused it, but end up putting together a disturbing scenario for the freedom of Brazilians. The problem is that we see all this here and stands with our jerk faces, lughing of our own misfortune… we are seeing someone build a wall around us and we cannot do anything… where is the sense of indignation? Does our hypocrisy ended with this one too?

I believe that we do not need any of that, we need only BE A MORE EDUCATED PEOPLE (and see the hypocrisy here again, in your head feelling that brazillians are really an educated people, hmm ???).

To end this post, what makes me more sad with this all is to see that most of those initiatives comes from “the pen” of people who pridely state that has “picked up in arms” or “paid the price” to fight the dictatorship in Brazil and ensure “our freedom” … Is it really true?