O twitter como instrumento de (in)formação política: a impossibilidade de autoridades públicas bloquearem o acesso de usuários às suas contas

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that public authorities cannot block user-citizen access to their Twitter accounts, since the right to access public information is fundamental, therefore essential for the construction and strengthening of democratic regimes. To do so, we analyze the relationship between the right to information and democracy, emphasizing that the latter does not exist without the former and vice versa. Then, we made an assessment of how the technological advance undertook the internet and social networks, and how they started to impact political and social relations, in addition to implementing a new form of dialogue, more direct and frank, becoming an important vehicle. for the dissemination of information regarding mandates and public policies. From there, we finally deduce the impossibility of public authorities blocking users on Twitter because they understand that information should be the rule in a Democratic State of Law. Thus, considering the novelties inaugurated by social networks, especially by Twitter, it remains to be seen how valuable these information and accessibility instruments are for government officials. Transparency is essential, therefore, when choosing to use Twitter to discuss matters of extreme public relevance, all users must have free access to these guidelines, not only those that the public authority wants, under penalty of violation of the fundamental right. information, one of the pillars of democracy.