The Mexican Bar Association and the Legal Affairs Laboratory of the Stanford Legal School have expressed the decision of the Mexican Congress to “suspend” the legislative process on the central government’s proposed telecommunication reform.
A comprehensive telecommunications reform bill The Mexican government is aimed at significantly changing the role of the Mexican government in broadcast and digital media law – and stopping spreading foreign government campaign in Mexico (or at least restricting) – Recognized by Senate groups on April 24.
The approval of the committees for this bill led to the consideration of the proposed law by all 128 senators. But before that happened, the Executive Committee of the Congress topped the law on the advice of President Claudia Sheinbam, he supported the front conversation with shareholders and changes in the bill.
Senate approved last week’s design for that conversationAnd related senators Said a new bill will be drawn During the weeks of hearing the comments of the shareholders.
A Joint statement Published on Monday, the Mexican Bar Association (Mexican Bar, Bar Association, or PMA) and Stanford Law Schools Law of the Laboratory Revealed the “recognition of the decision to suspend the legislative process” relating to the proposed telecommunications law to allow the “broad and informed debate.”
“The proposed law – submitted by the administrative power – provides excessive wider and vague rules, which authorize the agency for digital change and telecommunications companies, which temporarily prevent digital sites at the request of the relevant officers without clearly defining the applicable circumstances or instead of adequate control steps.”
BMA Chairman Anna Maria’s report and legal attack managing director Amrit Singh signed that “the width of these powers and the lack of accuracy in these powers and the impact of the right to freedom of speech and the impact of the right to information and the legitimate uncertainty they create.”
Other critics of the proposed law warned that the media would open the door for government censorship.
Shinbam moved quickly to solve those concerns and suggested that his administration had no intention of censoring content.
Article 109 of the bill “The Mexico government must change its words to make it completely clarified that no one is going to censor,” not published on digital sites, especially on digital sites, ” He said on April 25.
Shinbam argued that the proposed law requires the broadcasting of political or ideological propaganda in Mexico.
Opposition legislators claimed to have promoted the original law censorship as digital content sites such as Facebook, which would be banned from publishing any advertising or campaign funded by a foreign government, except for cultural or tourism.
Ricardo Anaya, a national action party Senator and 2018 presidential candidate, Stressed in x on April 24 The ruling Moorena party is “going to the entire control of the Internet, social media, radio and television.”
“… this is not an isolated incident. This is part of the audit and control plan,” he wrote.
Shinbam submitted the law proposed to Congress The US government took its anti -immigration message to Mexican Airways in April.
Reform is more than a reaction to US anti -immigration advertising. For example, supporters have insisted that reform is a serious effort to reduce the country’s continued digital divisions.
PMA: Any telecommunications regulation must be completed in international speech standards
In the proposed telecommunications law, “Shenbam agreed that” the need to open the process of dialogue, “the rule of the BMA and the Legal Impact Laboratory said that” any telecommunications and broadcast regulatory regulation must be compatible with the independence of international speech standards. “
They said those standards were “essential pillars” of democratic countries that respect the law.
The Rule of the BMA and the Legal Laboratory (led by the daughter of the recently deceased former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh) said that “future debate” should include “rigorous analysis of human rights” and in particular, “the right to freedom of speech in accordance with the current constitution and international structure”.
“Only with a focus that puts the individual’s ITy blouse and the general duty of the contacts, instead of weakening democracy, it can be designed to strengthen it,” they said.
With reports from Lopez-Digo DigitalOvarian Universal And Millinium
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