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A big issue here would be defining social media.

Are forums social media? What about reddit? What about YouTube?

I think what we really need is a ban on algorithmic recommendations that seek to encourage engagement or total time spent on the app.

Brazilian here. We still don't know if small things like comment sections and personal blogs will be under the new rules as our supreme court hasn't made any explicit exemption but their debates on the topic focused only on big techs. There is a chance an appeal will be filed to seek this kind of clarification.

As for buttons "I promisse I'm not Brazilian", that wouldn't really fly if the company in question has a lot of users in Brazil.

I suspect that we will see government enforcement only against big techs (especially Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube).

I genuinely doubt there will be many lawsuits targeting small websites because there isn't money to be made off them. So any litigation here will probably be restricted to personal revenge cases or something like it.

I really wish this had been settled in Congress with more cleat rules and language instead of decided by the courts.

assuming that the typo didn't lead to an invalid/unregistered key, you will see the recipient's bank, full name and masked CPF number in the confirmation screen.

I really dislike the lack of a more anonymous way to transfer money but given how prevalent scams are here I feel like there was no better option.

Also, before PIX bank transfers required a person's full name, full CPF number, full account and branch numbers so arguably PIX is helping to improve privacy a little bit.

However the big issue is when people register their phone numbers as PIX keys because it means strangers can easily get full names from phone numbers.

I guess that's because pretty much nobody in Brazil knows what an IBAN is

One explanation I've heard is that companies don't extract the same value from women as they do from men because society's sexism causes managers and peers to assign "low value tasks" disproportionately to women even when they have the same job description as their male counterparts.

I think that the commentor meant accents as in regional dialects.

Skill issue.

They could've easily used Times New Roman like their teachers probably instructed them. /hj

Why can't we just mandate people to send a copy of every publication to an UN Media Preservation Library and use something like redundant LTO tapes + Piql film to make sure stuff is never lost?

Yes it's expensive but if we divide those expense across 8 billion people out becomes affordable.

I agree that as a society we should absolutely not judge people as being any worse simply because there are naked or sexual pics or vids of them floating around.

In fact I would go further and just ban discrimination on sexuality and/or availability of sexual material of someone. This is specially important when it comes to employment and housing discrimination.

However, laws aren't magic bullets and even it such a law were to be 100% followed, the creation of realistic fake sexual material of someone is definitely a serious violation of privacy and intimacy and thus people who make such materials ought be punished as for the violation of such fundamental rights.

This is to say, punishment of fake nude creators should be irrespective of whether or not they caused emotional distress.

In short, I think most Brazilians trust technology more than they trust their fellow Brazilians.

We have a long history of lack of rule of law and of local authorities getting away with some pretty despicable shit. So, the less they can interfere with elections, the better off we are.

And pulling off a major fraud scheme with our voting machines is petty damn difficult as their software is loaded and sealed months before the election and all political parties can send representatives to observe the processes and to reqd the source code.

I do however wish that the source code were fully open for anyone to read. But I'm afraid of how much this transparency will be abused by disinformation campaigns.

Brazilian computer science student here.

Electronic voting is a good idea here because it raises the "barrier to commit fraud".

Basically, back when we ran our elections on paper, there was a lot of fraud as it's pretty easy to pull off fraud schemes.

With electronic voting, the system is so complex that almost no one can pull off a fraud scheme with two major expectations: voter intimidation and voter impersonation.

Although even that last one is getting tougher as we now scan peoples' fingerprints. The poll worker can manually override the system but this will be recorded and they will be in hot waters of they override too much.

Yes, in theory non-electronic elections are more secure, but in practice it's more complicated as we are dealing with a country with a horrible history at implementing rule of law and we have a significant amount of local authoritarian leaders (e.g. drug lords) that would definitely make it near impossible to run paper elections fairly.

I would do it differently: I would ban remote attestation on all general-purpose electronic devices and for all devices that are meant to be part of the home and run third party software.

So computers, phones, and game consoles cannot have remote attestation but home security systems, ATMs, e-Readers, medical devices, water/electricity usage meters can do remote attestation.

Where is the petition or letter we can sign to bring attention to this issue?

I think that the gov absolutely should do it but I also believe that it should allow people to configure their @something.gov email addresses as redirects so as to minimize the amount of information stored on gov servers.

Gender.

Sounds like something ML could solve.

> Can you give an example of where the bunch of numbers is copyrightable when it's not just a numeric encoding of something that was already copyrightable? Taking music and encoding it as a wav file is not a creative work, but it's a representation of a copyrighted work.

There are random number books and I know one of them has a copyright registration [1].

[1]: https://publicrecords.copyright.gov/detailed-record/7060844

Estrogen.

Also, Brazilian treasuries. Our interest rates are ridiculously high here.

As a long time linuxer and dev, I like your setup: it's simple, easy to understand, and gets the job done.

Brazilian here, the situation around PL 2630 (aka the Fake News bill) is a huge mess.

We absolutely need more oversight over big tech and we had had real violence and threats tied to online radicalisation (like all the death threats to our justices, that time Sara Winter fired fireworks at the supreme court building, and the Jan 8th riots) so something has to be done but our Congress is to slow to lead the charge so we end up having to delegate rule making powers to specialized bodies but this time everyone is afraid of how this new internet [something] board will act as it's brand new and unpredictable.

As for why Google and others are stonewalling things, the answer is a mix of money and ideology. Many of those big tech companies come from the US and their approach to freedom of speech is very very different ours so what we see as business as usual they see as an attack on free speech. On the money part, complying with the new law will be very expensive and nobody likes extra costs.

This looks far better than Brazil. We have the LGPD but nobody cares.

1. The growth of deep fake porn might lead us down a path where revenge porn no longer "works" as people know that for every real nude leaked there are like 10'000 fake ones.

2. Stylometrics AI gets so good that the only way to remain anonymous/private is to follow boring writing manuals thus killing a lot of creative writing of sensitive topics.

3. People spending so much time online that neighbours can barely talk to each other as they use the same words in subtly different meanings. We tradicionally saw this happening with people of different professions (e.g. law speak is very different from doctor speak). But having this phenomenon happening for every single fandom or microlabel can lead us to a lot of political troubles as votres can't reach common ground.

4. Companies will start storing fake data on their servers so as to minimize the value of the data for cybercriminals.

The r/transprogrammers Discord server. It is just an amazing place. It feels small, it doesn't have excessively complicated rules and everyone is very similar to each other and experiences similar struggles.

> There has never been any good scientific evidence that depression (or any other mental health issue for that matter) involves a “chemical imbalance”.

Transfem here. Gender Dysphoria is a hell of a condition and it usually improves massively as soon as people start taking cross-sex hormonal replacement therapy (HRT).

In my personal experience, it was almost like magic how quickly and how much I improved when my testosterone finally fell to zero.

Sounds perfect for my YouTube channel whose creation I've been postponing for over 6 years now.

Jokes aside, the project genuinely looks pretty cool and useful.

> - Per my knowledge US is the only country which stubbornly (and illogically) considers Sunday to be the first day of the week;

Brazil does the same as seemingly do Grece and Japan.

Also, in Portuguese, Monday is _segunda-feira_ which roughly translates as second-day.

Not if you keep changing the URL through JS to reflect the current offset.

Like:

exampe.com/products#offset-999

> 1. Only US-based websites and forums get to that level of extremism that is cause for de-platforming. I find this option the hardest to believe (pretty sure there are hideous things in other countries as well).

Because in places like Brazil racists and bigots can be easily-ish arrested long before they reach that level of extremism. For example, throwing racist insults at another person in Brazil is a literal crime for which you can be arested by anyone.

Also, places like Brazil make website owner legally liable for user content if the website does not comply with court orders.

> 2. The infra is mostly US-based (Cloudflare, cloud providers, etc.), they are focused or getting their attention drawn specifically to US-centric topics.

> 3. It happens in other counties as well, but because HN is US-centric I am hearing about the instances that are dealing with US topics.

I think that's partially true. However, the big issue is that the US has an absurd view of free speech that doesn't line with anyone else and as such the US hasn't really ratified the ICCPR nor does the US enforce foriegn court orders on matters related to free speech (see the SPEECH act). So anytime anything bad happens anywhere in the world people are forced to go to the media instead of the US government for help.

> Would love to learn about similar cases from other countries.

In Brazil, Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered the arrest of congressman Daniel Silveira for his antidemocratic activities. Because congresspeople can only be arested _in flagrante delicto_, that justice came up with the novel legal theory that everytime a person watches a video you posted it's like if you were speaking the same words again and thus if there's any crime there, you can be arrested at any time so long as the video is still up.

I'm of course simplyfing. Daniel Silveira, if I recall correctly, was involved in groups making physical threats against the Supreme Court Justices among other stuff.

Some useful sources: (in Portuguese)

https://www.conjur.com.br/2021-fev-17/especialistas-defendem...

https://www.camara.leg.br/noticias/729294-camara-decide-mant...

https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2022/04/29/alexandre-d...

https://www.conjur.com.br/2022-jun-22/bloqueio-paginas-pco-g...

https://www.conjur.com.br/2022-set-06/tre-rj-nega-registro-c... (that congressman was barred from running for relection)

https://veja.abril.com.br/politica/deputado-do-psl-ameaca-st... (he said he would volunteer to physically/militarily attack the court)

In my view, the order of jurisdiction preference goes:

1) Country of the victim's residency.

2) Country of the agressor's residency.

3) Country where the web site is legally headquartered.

4) Country where the web site administrators are residing.

5) Country where the physical servers are.

6) Any other country that somehow can claim some reasonable connection to the case.

Of course, the ideal thing would be to setup some sort of world-wide ECHR to sort out any jurisdictional issues and perhaps even rule in some cases.

> It’s nonsense this has anything to do with the law.

Actually, if they processed data from any European person they would be required to follow GDPR. And if they processed data from any Brazilian they would be required to follow LGPD.

Any significant deliberate blindness towards privacy, defamation, and hate speech laws are unlawful acts that must be punished according to the Law. Idealy by extraditing the website administrators so they can they can face criminal charges over their misconduct.