The President () said on Tuesday (3) that it is necessary to accelerate the regulation of social networks and said again that the leader of, will send an emissary to Brazil to discuss the issue.
“When it arrives in the digital world, two or three citizens think they can send in the world, they think they can determine the rules of society. That’s why we have to regulate either the Brazilian National Congress or the Supreme Court,” Lula told a news conference at the Planalto Palace.
“I received, Mauro Vieira [ministro das Relações Exteriores]he received a letter from Xi Jinping, who had to send the person to talk. When this person comes to talk, it is Sidonius Palmeira [ministro da Comunicação Social] that will receive this person to talk. We want to rush the regulation in the most democratic way possible, listening to Brazilian society. “
The information that Lula asked, during his recent visit to Beijing, helps Xi Jinping to deal with the regulation of social networks generated criticism of opponents, once Digital China, such as opponent silence.
The request was revealed after an episode in which the first lady Rosângela Lula da Silva, A, making comments with criticism of Tiktok during a Lula meeting with Xi.
The situation became the main political fact of the state’s visit to Beijing. According to the G1 portal, Janja would have said at dinner with Xi 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.
In defending the regulation, Lula said at this Tuesday’s press conference that the world is not possible to be transformed into a “lies bank.”
“It is not possible for a guy to try to give a coup, as on January 8, 2023 in this country, and say this is freedom of expression. That a citizen can offend a person with the greatest absurd lies and say that this is freedom of expression.”
On the 20th, during a hearing at the Senate Foreign and National Defense Commission, Mauro Vieira had said that there was 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.
