A censura prevista na lei de segurança nacional e seus reflexos na democracia

Abstract

Between 2000 and 2020, 155 investigations based on the National Security Law were opened. This law defines crimes that threaten national security, including slander and defamation against the President of the Republic and his line of succession. The study seeks to analyze how the mitigation of the right of freedom of speech fixed in the National Security Law reflects on Brazil's democracy. For this, it proposes to lecture on the right of freedom of speech as one of the presuppositions of democracy, to analyze the process of redemocratization and to reflect on the effects of article 26 of the National Security Law in Brazilian democracy. The methodology used is historical-dialectic and its approach is qualitative and exploratory, as it relies on documental research and bibliographic research. It is observed that the article has the power to generate fear and apprehension in the population and in the press to impetuously criticize the president, however, due to the press's own action, freedom of speech remained active, but society must remain vigilant. It is up to them to watch over and maintain democracy.