O Google It defends clear rules for the removal of content from social networks without judicial authorization.
The company fears that the changes in Article 19 of the Internet Marco Civil and the accountability of the Big Techs, become “censorship”.
This Wednesday (11), the Supreme Ministers formed a majority to hold the platforms for users published by users. Given the divergences between each vote, it remains to define in which situations this may occur.
In agendas throughout Brazil, the company’s president of global affairs, Kent Walker, defended article 19, but mentioned that it is necessary balance between freedom of expression and social responsibility.
“We do not want this to become censorship. If it is a threat to democracy, if it is an incitement to violence, if it is a threat to children, these are clear categories. But what is being suggested is a much broader notion. The devil lives in the details,” Walker said at lunch with a small journalists, of which she CNN It was part.
The executive stressed that he does not know “another country in the world” that has adopted the liability of the platforms. For him, this change will make Big Techs “very cautious about anything that may be controversial.”
Walker also supported Article 21 of Marco Civil da Internet as “an excellent starting point” to work on the details of the contents that must be withdrawn.
The stretch provides that the internet provider that provides third party content will be held responsible, if it does not take over after notification of the victim or legal guardian, cases of violation of intimacy for disclosure of images, videos or other materials with nudity scenes, or sexual acts.
“Otherwise, the risk can really go too far,” he said.
According to Walker, Google has 50,000 employees who work in content moderation and uses artificial intelligence models to analyze publications that can hurt the policies of the company.
The company also expects specific definitions for each platform. The executive mentioned that the search engine has different answers from other platform products, such as the translator or Maps.
Google executives circulated in Brasilia (DF) this week to talk to representatives of the three powers.
Big Tech members made contacts to show concern about the possibility of “censorship” and the need to delimit cases where platforms need to withdraw content.
The agendas began on Tuesday (10), a day before the Federal Supreme Court (STF) form a majority in the trial of Marco Civil da Internet.
Google declined to inform who the ministers and authorities contacted. However, Minister Cristiano Zanin published on the public agenda of the Supreme who received the executives on Tuesday afternoon (10).
Marco Civil da Internet
On Wednesday (11), the revision of article 19 to hold the platforms for users’ content had majority, with the vote of Minister Gilmar Mendes.
The magistrate argued that “although Article 19 was of undeniable importance for the construction of a plural internet […]today this device is outdated. “
In addition to Mendes, Cristiano Zanin, Flávio Dino, Dias Toffoli, Luiz Fux and Luís Roberto Barroso were favorable to the measure.
The only one to diverge so far was André Mendonça, who defends the “regulated self -regulation”.
The trial occurs over two extraordinary appeals and has general repercussion. Judgment on the accountability of Big Techs should not be finalized this week. According to the president of the court, Luís Roberto Barroso, the theses of the ministers will be collected and then the differences will be discussed.
