A censura do humor: um estudo socio-jurídico sobre a liberdade de expressão

Abstract

The present study proposes to analyze the freedom of expression under its historical and social aspect in order to understand to what level international and national protection has risen. Thus, under an analysis that confronts it with other positive human rights as image rights and honor rights that are commonly confronted with the freedom discussed in the context of humorous discourse. Therefore, it brings up an appreciation of the State's juridical approach in defense of the rights of personality against the censorship of humor and the right to satire. Finally, with the purpose of pointing out that censorship will come through the means that society has - as the internet - placing it as active beings in a network of opinions, it was searched through a methodology focused on the deductive method and historical method confront how social censorship should compose the active space that human beings would have in defense of its ideals and consequent rights, thereby making an alternative to the institutionalized criticism that was so rejected at the time of the Military Dictatorship.