2014 X 2018 - THE THREAT TO THE FREEDOM ON INTERNET CONTINUES

Comparing the events of the presidential election year of 2014 and of this year.

In 2014, there was a threat from Workers Party, the Civil Internet Framework. President Dilma, her party the Workers Party, and left-wing parties allies aimed to control all media including the internet. They did not get control of the internet, but they got the approval of the Civil Internet Framework in the Congress and the Senate, making room for state interference on the web.

Now in 2018, it is occurring censorship and persecution of the conservative right-wing on facebook. With the noble pretext of fighting fake news, facebook has been unfairly punishing users, limiting the reach of posts and hiding the posted images that have content focused on the right values. The goal is to prevent Jair Bolsonaro's victory in the presidential election that will take place in October this year, as Bolsonaro is Brazil's only conservative candidate and is in 1st place in the polls.

2014 - THE AWAKENING TO THE THREAT OF COMMUNISM

2014 was the year in which my consciousness began to awaken to the threat of Communism. It was in March, and my posts on facebook used to be mostly about Japanese superheroes' live-action series (known as tokusatsu) and the biggest arguments were around my criticisms of Hollywood-produced Marvel superhero movies. My favorite anime, Saint Seiya (A.K.A. Knights of the Zodiac) was doing 20 years of broadcast in Brazil, and I was about to homage this anime series on my facebook' posts during the year. But suddenly an unforeseen happened. In that month the internet began to be threatened because the government of the Workers Party (PT) put on the agenda at the Congress
 the project of Internet Civil Framework. I hate television, it sucks, and since when I started to have internet access, I don't watch TV anymore. There are nothing interesting on TV, only stupid and vulgar shows and fake news. I remembered of the PIPA, SOPA, and ACTA, an international threat against the internet freedom which had occurred sometime before, but there were protests around the world, and due to popular pressure, the US President Barack Obama decided backed down. All of a sudden, when I thought the threats against the internet freedom were over, the idea of internet controlling returns, this time inside my country, brought by President Dilma Rousseff and her party (Workers Party) and the leftists/communists allied parties. I realized the goal of President Rousseff was to turn the Brazilian internet into a controlled by goverment internet like in China, although in her and allies' speech, they said that it was for web's neutrality. Bullshit! The internet was already neutral without goverment interference. I was becoming very upset and revolted, but what I thought was a big problem, it was just the tip of the iceberg. I found that the democracy in my country was (and is yet) strongly threatened, and that was a project of dictatorial power at the continental level. And, there, I changed my habit of writing posts about entertainment, and I started doing more posts about politics, and so I continue to this day.

Below is one of the images from the facebook's campaign against the Internet Civil Framework that Brazilians who were against shared to try to alert and awaken people about this threat to the internet freedom.