In 2005, journalist Rose Leonel began a long emotional, financial and legal battle after her ex-boyfriend released unauthorized intimate images of her. In 2011, Lola Aronovich began receiving threats for writing feminist texts on her blog. The following year, actress Carolina Dieckmann was also forced to deal with the consequences of the dissemination of nude pictures, after her email was hacked. In 2015, journalist Maju Coutinho was the target of a racist and misogynist campaign on social media. Councilwoman Marielle Franco was murdered in 2018. Attacks on female candidates, journalists and teachers have become recurrent throughout Brazil. Since then, the increase in women's online presence has been accompanied by an increase in violations of their freedoms.
If the limited legal apparatus for protecting victims and holding aggressors accountable in the offline world was already the result of years of social demands - the Maria da Penha Law, for example - the digital transformations in the country have brought new doubts and the need to update notions and laws. It is by looking at this context from the articulation of the fields of internet and gender policies that Mariana Valente sheds light on the social disputes and the legislation established to curb violent and sexist behavior on the internet. Created over the course of ten years - from the Carolina Dieckmann Law to the Political Violence Law, passing through the Marco Civil da Internet - however, these rules are only Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)