Funny I thought Brazil was hosting some sort of big sporting event in a few years - but I suddenly can't find anything about it on Google
No, I think not. The populist governments are just trying to control it.
But I think that's his point - the power of the internet has come from it's openness and freedom. Try to control it and trying to kill it are very much the same thing, even if a government isn't conscious of that.
Yes, you kill the internet by killing the freedom spirit of it. But these governments want to keep it alive and free for them and for their friends.