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12/07/2012
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The rapporteur of the bill's Internet Civil Marco, Mr Alessandro Molon (PT / RJ) has just made public its new version of the substitute, after the government deemed unconstitutional the role he assigned to the Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br), which would have powers to regulate network neutrality. Now, proposed by deputy, shall rest with the president to regulate by decree, net neutrality, listening to the CGI. It will submit its report this afternoon, the meeting of the Special Committee of the House of Representatives, created to examine the issue.
Article 9 will have the following wording, as proposed by Mr:
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"The person responsible for the transmission, switching and routing is the duty of treating isonomic any data packets, regardless of content, origin and destination, service, application or terminal.
§ 1
(Nonexistent) the breakdown or degradation of the traffic is regulated by Decree, after hearing the recommendations of the Steering Committee of the Internet in Brazil (CGI.br) and can only result from:
I - technical requirements necessary for the proper enjoyment of the services and applications, and
§ 2
(Nonexistent) In the event of breakdown or degradation of traffic under § 1, the person mentioned in the introduction should:
I - refrain from causing damage to users;
II - to respect free competition, and
III - prior information in a transparent, clear and sufficiently descriptive to its users about the management practices or mitigation of traffic adopted.
§ 3
(Nonexistent) the provision of Internet connection, costly or free, is not allowed to block, monitor, filter, analyze or monitor the content of data packets, except if permitted by law.
The member also has significant changes in relation to the removal of Internet content. In the previous version, he allowed those contents could be removed by others or by providers, responsible for the safekeeping of the data. Now, it only allows access to data only by court order. For this, stir in Article 11 of the project.
CGI
To justify the maintenance of CGI as a body of prior consultation on net neutrality, the congressman explained in its opinion: "the composition of the board, which includes representatives of the Federal Government, the business sector, third sector, the scientific and technological community and a researcher of renowned Internet expert, gives you a balanced view, which of course will reflect positions in mature and great representation of the general will on the recommendation of rules governing the management and net neutrality in Brazil. We were careful, moreover, not to enter the jurisdiction of the executive branch regarding the regulation of service and value-added telecommunications services. We would, therefore, that the regulations will be made through Presidential Decree. "
Source: Telesíntese
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