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President Rousseff, left, receives applause after signing the Marco Civil this morning. Image: Youtube/Net Mundial
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In addition, Reuters reported on a part of the law that hasn't been discussed much: It "protects freedom of expression and information, establishing that service providers will not be liable for content published by users, but they must comply with court orders to remove offensive or libellous material.""I should actually stress that the same rights that people are entitled to in the offline world should exist on the online world," Rousseff said.That follows a landmark NSA speech in January, in which President Barack Obama largely danced around the question of online privacy rights online. For example, when responding to the inability of large tech companies to reveal the scope of spying programs—a veil which has since been partially lifted—Obama said, "This secrecy will not be indefinite, and will terminate within a fixed time unless the government demonstrates a real need for further secrecy."The same rights that people are entitled to in the offline world should exist on the online world.
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