YouTube Brazil's Statement on Proposed Fake News Law

Every single country deciding for itself what is truth & demanding any other view be taken down. That's where this is headed.

Nations don't have sovereignty over the whole internet. If your citizens connect overseas/afar, your national rights don't come with them. It's an impossible conflicting mess to imagine otherwise, impossible.

The nations keep making fools of themselves & further making the bombastic Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace look more and more realistic & just. Brazil here is making a fairly early start in sliding down the slippery slope to madness, in proving how badly the international order needs to figure out what constraints there are to lawmaking.

Brazil has a particularly exciting take that grants themselves the right to bypass content moderation at will. It's of the new trendy right wing view that compelled speech is required, that it hasn't been fair to some politicians that their speech keeps getting marked as hate speech or inciting. Seeing Brazil here following this radical compelled speech agenda isnt that surprising alas but it is certainly alarming; telling society we aren't even allowed to not-hear things generally considered untenably indecent & harmful- that we have to be subject to whatever poltiicial voices want to say- is some wild 1984 force-think.

There's a lot of serious fascism growing, when governments get to say not just what can & can't be said but also dictates what must be said.

Big Tech should prepare itself. Censorship laws are being passed literally right now. It looks like politicians and judges will have unlimited power to decide what's "fake" and order deletion of so called "fake" content. I saw news today they got rid of the oversight provisions in the law.