There goes the charter
The digital rights charter, "orphaned and inconsequential", is back on Parliament’s agenda. Parties hope to fix the controversial Article 6. But, in a year, the law has changed nothing.
The days of the controversial Article 6 of the digital rights charter are numbered. The Socialist Party, which has an absolute majority in the Assembly of the Republic, has decided to back down and tabled a bill to repeal that provision, having refused to do so in the last legislature.
The bill proposes repealing almost all the points of the article on the right to protection against disinformation.
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AI translation from the Portuguese. First published in ECO on 23 June 2022.