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In Brazil laws come in effect after a period of time after being published (this must be the case with most laws in most countries). Art. 32 of the new law says it will start counting 60 days from being officially published, that will be on June 22th. Here is the link for the law in the government website: L12968, just go to the very end, it's the last one.

Also, art. 15 states that internet applications (websites/services?) providers that are organized as companies, and provide the application in an organized, professional and for profit way, are required to keep the 6 months logs (that should have only ip and connection times). I don't believe that's Radio Muda's case, but we'll find out after the law comes in effect.

I'm against the seizure, always liked the people from the radio, am against the communications regulating agency in Brazil, do think radios should be free to operate without being related to the oligarchies controlling the country. But this has nothing to do with the new law.

It's commonly accepted that on our brazilian portuguese language we do not change the gender if the article is sufficient to identify it -- "a piloto", "a gerente". Portuguese is sufficiently complicated and too many words as it is.

And yes, she made a law forcing to "genderize" words, at least on school certificates. Presidenta, yuck.

If you are jornalista or humorista, you are female now. How nice of her :D

Planalto is the "seat of government" in Brazil - its Parliament House, or White House, if you will.

Presumably the "blog" Lula refers to is this one. Wikileaks is already cited there several times.

Planalto is the "seat of government" in Brazil - its Parliament House, or White House, if you will.

Presumably the "blog" Lula refers to is this one. Wikileaks is already cited there several times.

Thank you for pointing out that you follow Mainardi's view of stupidity. Just so you know, when you say that to rip a CD/DVD in Brazil (like I care if they write with a Z or a S) is illegal you could not be more wrong. This has not been crime for about 7 years when the congress passed the bill to work on the 1940 copyright law. You can read here - for those not fluent in portuguese it pretty much states that it's not a copyright violation when done for personal use.

I'd also like to point out that Brazil is not an "Outlaws Paradise" as you seemed to imply through your text. All countries have their own level of problems - be it social or political. It'd be interesting if you actually took your time to understand what a "simple bill" might represent for the state in 50 years rather than in the usual 4-year-minded.

Do your research. We DO have constitutionally guaranteed privacy. It's spelled out in article 5, X, under "intimacy and private life":

X - são invioláveis a intimidade, a vida privada, a honra e a imagem das pessoas, assegurado o direito a indenização pelo dano material ou moral decorrente de sua violação;

https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/Constituicao /Constitui%C3%A7ao.htm

art. 43: the disposition in the last article [the right the patent's holder of impeding someone else of using, selling, etc your patented inventions or utility models] does not apply to:
I - acts practiced by unauthorized third parties, in private and without commercial finalities, as long as said acts do not imply in economic loss to the patent's holder;
[six other cases follow]

Oh, how the world has changed!

Oh, how the world has changed!