Comments for Brazil Uses Courts to Reimpose Prior Censorship on the Press at http://www.brazzilmag.com , comment 0 to 8 out of 8 comments http://www.brazzilmag.com Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:14:24 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8895/54/#pc_12432 You definitely don't have a clue about this matter in Brazil. First, we are talking about a local and very small newspaper. The big ones publish everything they want about Renan. Second, The Justice Court of the State of Alagoas is known to have corrupt judges. In fact, Alagoas is the state that suffers most with corruption. But you can't say that Brazil in general is lacking freedom of press. This is simply not true. Brazil is a big country where different regions have different levels of development. Just like USA. In some poor regions you will find a elitist minority ruling the press, like in Alagoas. But this doesn't happen in most of the country. Please, don't try to assert things without getting to know them deeply in the first place. And yes, in Brazil "all the Networks and all the major papers" pursue this and publish what is restricted. - De facto Brazilian Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:42:11 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8895/54/#pc_12141 "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe." Thomas Jefferson - AES Wed, 21 Nov 2007 18:14:36 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8895/54/#pc_12137 sounds like brasilian judges and sentors are taking a page from chaves land brasil has been a signatory too most all UN rules but chooes to only obay them when it is to its benfit - Forrest Allen Brown Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:15:53 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8895/54/#pc_12131 "Article 19 is a human rights organization that works to protect and promote the right to freedom of expression. It takes its name from Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees free speech." Brazil, a signatory of the UDHR, is always suppressing those who speak and stand for a more transparent society. - shelly Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:31:03 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8895/54/#pc_12130 "A judge in the Brazilian Northeast has forbidden a newspaper from publishing stories on a congress representative. These judicial actions barring publication of articles have become more and more common in Brazil, since the so-called "prior censorship" instituted by the military dictatorship has ended more than two decades ago". And some people here still think, right A BRAZILIAN?, that we should be glad for the military. It sounds like we still "living under a dictatorship". I am sure you are for the suppression of the press as well. - shelly Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:18:43 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8895/54/#pc_12106 Why pay ? A service is given for another past or future "service" ! And if the judge disagrees, he wont stay as a judge....for long !!!! Either you are in the system of corruption/red tape and you benefit, or you are out and you become a sugarcane worker or a manufacturing worker....at best ! And there are no other alternative in ALL Banana Republics. - ch.c. Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:29:03 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8895/54/#pc_12104 In a country where corruption is rampant, paying off a Judge should not pose much of a problem for a Congressman. Maybe the newspaper should start looking into any connections with the Judge and the Congressman and his family. - pbvt Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:51:49 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8895/54/#pc_12102 If this were the U.S. all the Networks and all the major papers would persue this and publish what was restricted. They would discuss why this Congressman and his political family is of such interest that a court would set such an injunction. This is of great interest to all of Brazil. What are the criteria of the press being silenced. The echo of Chavez and all despotism. - AES Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:08:46 +0100