Government ministers () gathered on Thursday (22) in an attempt to include the accountability of companies about the content published on the networks.
According to involved in the writing of the proposal, the text will focus on defending the rights of network users, with emphasis on vulnerable groups such as children and adolescents.
The meeting takes place ten days after the first lady Rosângela Lula da Silva, A, cite the harmful effects of the Chinese platform during dinner with the president of ,.
Among the participants of this Thursday’s meeting, held at the Civil House were ministers Ricardo Lewandowski (Justice), Jorge Messias (Attorney General of the Union) and Sidônio Palmeira (Secom), as well as Rui Costa (Civil House).
The proposal under discussion includes the adoption of criteria for the removal of posts that violate existing laws and to combat mass hate speeches and misinformation.
One of the doubts is which body will be responsible for the inspection, whether the (National Telecommunications Agency) or the ANPD (National Data Protection Authority). The tendency is to be the responsibility of ANPD, as long as it is vitamin.
The conversations about the project started in January, on the wake of and on its platforms, such as Facebook and Instagram. In the first two years of office, the government tried to approve in the National Congress a proposal on the subject, but failed.
One of the proposals under study provides that the platforms are subjected to a precautionary duty, similar to the European model of the “duty of care”, with the attribution of removing content considered criminal, without the need for judicial decision. It would be up to the government to oversee the general compliance with the rules by companies.
On Monday (19), in defending his approach on the subject in China, Janja said he had crashed conversations on the subject with France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron.
Hours later, Janja published an official video of the French first lady in support of the cause of children’s protection on social networks. Brigitte said she was sensitized by the story told her by Tiktok’s viral janja.
The central project of the project under discussion would also stipulate that the control was made by the platforms themselves in the case of illicit content, from violations of consumer law to pedophilia e. The government’s intention, at this point, would be to restrict moderation to crimes already provided for in Brazilian law and try to reduce the resistance of groups that point to regulation as a trail for censorship.
The text, however, paves the way for platforms to be required to take action on posts that contain “misinformation about public policies.” Companies would have a duty to act when they received extrajudicial notifications, as well as combating the mass distribution of such material.
The proposal under discussion was prepared by. Its draft was presented in January to a working group with Casa Civil, (Attorney General of the Union), CGU (Comptroller General of the Union), and Secom (Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency).
The group came to meet to discuss the proposal, whose final text will be submitted to President Lula.
