Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Smart Diplomacy: Brazilian President complains to Obama about "a grave violation of human rights" and "especially of disrespect to national sovereignty"


A few days after Brazil's president canceled her trip to the United States, Dilma Rousseff criticized the United States before the United Nations, report the BBC and Le Monde, while calling for "the United Nations to play a leading role in regulating electronic technology" — which sounds like censorship, if you ask me…
"We face, Mr President, a situation of a grave violation of human rights and civil liberties; of invasion and capture of confidential information concerning corporate activities, and especially of disrespect to national sovereignty".

 … She asked the United Nations to play a leading role in regulating electronic technology and said Brazil would present proposals for a "civilian multilateral framework" for the governance and use of the internet and to protect web-based data.