Safe Digital Environments Law: Difference between revisions
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==Concerns== | ==Concerns== | ||
If the bill follows the idea of applying any kind of restriction to access social media, it might be incompatible with the Chilean constitution and the [[Net Neutrality Law]] | |||
===Incompatibility with the Chilean constitution=== | |||
According to the Chapter III, Article 19, section 12 of the Chilean Politic Constitution of the Republic, that mentions constitutional rights and duties:<ref>https://www.camara.cl/camara/doc/leyes_normas/constitucion.pdf</ref> | According to the Chapter III, Article 19, section 12 of the Chilean Politic Constitution of the Republic, that mentions constitutional rights and duties:<ref>https://www.camara.cl/camara/doc/leyes_normas/constitucion.pdf</ref> | ||
{{Quote |12°. The freedom to emit opinion and informing, without previous censorship, in any form and in any media, without the prejudice to respond to crimes and abuse that are commited in the excercise of these liberties in conformity to the law, that must be qualified quorum. | {{Quote |12°. The freedom to emit opinion and informing, without previous censorship, in any form and in any media, without the prejudice to respond to crimes and abuse that are commited in the excercise of these liberties in conformity to the law, that must be qualified quorum. | ||
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If the restriction to access to social media is imposed with only using ClaveÚnica for verifying age as the alternative to do so, this would result into something that might fit into a statal monopoly and as a form of censorship as well, because it blocks underage users, does not allow any adult that does not want to verify their age and controls who can and cannot access to social media, something that can be considered as social communication media. | |||
===Incompatibility with the Net Neutrality Law=== | |||
With the Net Neutrality Law, there's a conflict with the first dictated core principle of this legislation, that states network services or applications that offer connectivity or communication between users cannot arbitrarily block, interfere, discriminate, hinder, nor restrict the right of any Internet user to use, send, receive or offer any legal content through Internet, including any legal activity or usage done trough the network. | With the Net Neutrality Law, there's a conflict with the first dictated core principle of this legislation, that states network services or applications that offer connectivity or communication between users cannot arbitrarily block, interfere, discriminate, hinder, nor restrict the right of any Internet user to use, send, receive or offer any legal content through Internet, including any legal activity or usage done trough the network. | ||