Sergio Amadeu da Silveira - Cidadania e Redes Digitais

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that violate liberal and federalist principles that ground the North-American policy.
It is also in this moment, in Brazil, that the fair fight against pedophilia and the
defense of the children have been used as an argument to impose a browsing control
and indistinct identification of the individuals using the Internet.
In this initial period of the 21st century, fundamentally a control society, we
live a Hobbesian moment. Part of the governmental bureaucracies, of the safety
agencies, supported by part of the intermediation industry, seeks to disseminate
fear, which varies from society to society, with the purpose of creating the adhesion
of the majorities for approval of the surveillance measurements, the most important
being to prevent or block the anonymous expression of ideas, anonymous browsing
in the network, and the anonymous creation of information technologies. These
forces want to impose surveillance technologies on the control society. For such,
they exaggerate the risks and dangers to convince society of the need of ceasing part
of their freedom and of their privacy on behalf of a supposed safety. This is, with no
doubt, a Hobbesian moment.
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