The Minister of Foreign Affairs, said on Tuesday (20) that there was no invitation of the government () so that a command of the Chinese leader, come to Brazil to discuss the regulation of social networks, especially the.
Vieira’s speech contrasts with a statement by President Lula himself, who, during his recent visit to Beijing, to send a person of his trust to Brazil to address the subject.
“I asked companion Xi Jinping if it was possible to send to Brazil a person of his trust to discuss the digital issue and, above all, Tiktok,” Lula said at the time.
“So for me it was a simply normal thing and he will send a person. That matters. He will send a person especially to talk to us about what we can do in this digital world.”
On Tuesday, during a hearing at the Senate Foreign Affairs and National Defense Commission, Mauro Vieira stated that there was no – and there is no invitation for a Chinese authority to travel to Brazil to deal with Tiktok regulation.
“There was no invitation for any Chinese authority to come, there is no,” Vieira said, answering a question by Senator Sergio Moro (União Brasil-PR). The parliamentarian said that a visit of the type would be an “invitation to censorship”, due to the high control exercised by the Chinese regime on the internet.
At another point in the hearing, Vieira said that “there is no specialist visiting program [da ] to deal with whatever it is. This may be in the future. “
The episode in which the first lady Rosângela Lula da Silva, a, during a meeting of Lula with Xi became the main political fact of the state’s visit to Beijing.
Janja in the Chinese delegation when talking to Xi about the harmful effects of the Tiktok social network. As reported by Portal G1, she would have said that the social network algorithm favors the right.
Still in Beijing, Lula defended his wife. He said he departed from him the initiative to address Tiktok’s regulation and that Janja just commented on the topic later. The president criticized the Brazilian delegation itself for the leakage of the conversation.
According to Lula, Xi’s response was that Brazil has the right to regulate the networks. “It is not possible to continue with social networks by committing the absurdities they commit, and we do not have the ability to regulate,” said the Brazilian.
Mauro Vieira reported the meeting with the Chinese delegation, in which he also participated.
“I was present. It was a mention that the president made, in which he only asked for help from the first lady for the specific fact [das redes sociais]. The following has been said: It is not possible to let on digital platforms that there is pornography, pedophilia and famous challenges that run on digital networks, which led to 8 years recently in Brasilia for a challenge of inhaling deodorant, “said Vieira.
“There has to be some kind of control, it cannot be left, after all, the platforms that convey this have to have some kind of responsibility,” he said.
