Brazil says Meta hate speech policy changes do not fit with local law

Biden's CIA guy told our former president to stop questioning the voting machines. You're claiming they're now they're spreading propaganda about election denialism?

I just wonder what their real objective is. They helped put our current president in jail a long time ago by basically delivering a lot of evidence on a silver platter. It led to Bolsonaro's election, and to said "denialism". What's the long term objective?

I mean, yes? It's possible to "expand the speech you can say" on an American social media platform in ways which violate American free speech laws as well. American free speech is more lenient than elsewhere but it isn't, contrary to popular belief, absolute.

And speaking of doublespeak, the quote you posted says "violation of laws that protect fundamental rights," not "violation of fundamental rights."

isn’t authoritarian the platform that suddenly decides to change by their own how billions of people can or don’ cannot talk? it’s time to remove such power from them

The Supreme Court is ruling in the next days whether platforms are liable for hate speech by their users. They are going to rule on this possible interpretation of an article from the Marco Civil law from 2014.

Perhaps this is what the government is waiting for, but from what we've seen so far with the Musk x Moraes fight is, Zuckerberg should think twice before removing any hate speech and fake news safeguards his platforms have, otherwise they will be banned from operating in the country.

Some analysts from the supreme court also said that the end of this fact checking program can be considered as a violation of the internet law in Brazil [0]

Besides, the solicitor's general office is going to hold a public hearing about the changes to Meta's policies [1]

[0] https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/blogs/luisa-martins/politica/fi...

[1] https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/agu-adia-audiencia-pub...

And to answer your question, they are not just expanding the speech. Don't mistake free speech with freedom of aggression, and also keep in mind Brazil is not a lawless world like the US is, we are more civil than that.

In brazil, saying homophobic, transphobic, or racist things are illegal (and you can get arrested).

The thing is, for now, Marco Civil law, kinda let the so called "providers" not liable for users content posts, but that's likely to change on a Supreme Court decision that is happening about the Art 19 of Marco Civil. It's similar to U.S Section 230.

That said, if the platforms rules ALLOW homophobic speech literally, as they did, I'm pretty sure that would be illegal even with current legislation, because this wouldn't be a "bad moderation, would be a "no moderation", it was a choice of the company to allow that speech.

Brazil has no free speech rights. Well it technically does but they don't work because they aren't enforced. And people will come up with countless caveats to shut down your speech anyway. The latest meme is "fake news". What's "fake" is defined by the ruling party, of course.

It's not even a democracy to begin with. Supreme court is the true seat of power. Doesn't matter what the constitution says. The law is what these 100% unelected guys say it is.

I've seen those supreme court judges persecute some youtuber because he called one of them fat.