TV Câmara

TV Câmara (Portuguese: Chamber TV) is a Brazilian public television network responsible for broadcasting activities from the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. Created in 1998, it broadcasts 24 hours a day from the Chamber.

Tv Câmara
TypePublic television
BrandingTV Câmara
Country
Brazil
AvailabilityBrazil
OwnerBrazilian Chamber of Deputies
Launch date
January 20, 1998
Official website
Official website

Censorship

On March 2009, Chamber President Michel Temer, at the request of Renato Parente, head of the Supreme Federal Court's press service, ordered the removal from TV Câmara's website of a debate in which CartaCapital journalist Leandro Fortes criticized Gilmar Mendes' tenure as Court President.[1] Many viewed this episode as political censorship and the video was soon posted on YouTube.[2] After being denounced of censorship by the country's main bodies representative of journalists, TV Câmara put the debate back on its website.[1]

gollark: You should go to our fictional restaurants then.
gollark: I don't know what the actual figures are.
gollark: They might be fine apart from that, and you may be unreasonably cutting out a significant fraction of okay people.
gollark: (Some) people have been culturally whatevered into assuming that that sort of thing is necessary.
gollark: People do it all the time.

References
  1. Fortes, Leandro. "O fim da Idade Mendes" Archived 2010-04-29 at the Wayback Machine. Observatório da Imprensa. April 23, 2010.
  2. The "censored" program on YouTube


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