Rapporteur of the project that deals with the protection of children and adolescents in digital environments, Deputy Jadyel Alencar (Republicans-PI) included excerpts that deal with the duty of platform care and evaluates that there is no climate in the House to vote against the agenda.
The duty of care contains in an article that determines that suppliers of information technology products or services that can be accessed by children and adolescents should take steps to prevent and mitigate contact risks and exposure to content exploration and sexual abuse, physical violence and incentive to behaviors similar to addiction or disorders such as anxiety and depression.
“Brazilian law imposes rules in all activities, in all sectors. And the internet has a duty to prepare children to make digital literacy,” says Alencar. “You can no longer postpone these protective measures here in the house. It is not a censorship, it is rule.”
The argument of censorship and attempted curtailment to freedom of expression has made other projects, such as the regulation of social networks, to stop in the House, partly by the scenes of the Big Techs.
For the rapporteur, companies are now at another time, criticized for not acting to contain the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents. “And I said that to the president [Hugo Motta] Now: ‘President, it is a moment of fragility of the platforms. If we lose the timing, we don’t approve of the project.
“What are we going to always defend, the adolescent, the fight against pornography, the fight against Bets, the fight against monetization over children and adolescents. Who can, as opposed to be against it?”, Asks.
Nevertheless, opposition deputies are already articulating to obstruct the text if he tries to regulate social networks. “It is an agenda that has already been discussed here in the urgency, the PL of fake news, and lost. So all the time someone tries to put this regulation on social networks and this is very bad,” says Deputy Captain Alberto Neto (PL-AM). “What we need is social networking cooperation, not regulation.”
“We will obstruct, we will convince the other deputies, as we did in the Fake News PL,” he adds. “Let’s show that the regulation of social networks is censorship and can prune freedom of expression.”
Within the government, the idea is to take advantage of Alencar’s text reported to, for example. The attempt to regulate is seen with caution, for fear of tensioning the spirits with the opposition in the House.
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