The commentators Alessandro Soares e Helio Beltrão debated this Tuesday (02), in the Freedom of Opinion section, about and how terrorist groups.
The Lula government has drawn up an action plan to prevent the two decrees that establish new rules for the actions of digital platformsthe so-called Big Techs, are overthrown.
One of the decrees establishes guidelines for the protection of women on the internet and to confront the violence in a digital environment. The other imposes stricter rules for application providers, requiring a reporting channel, legal representative in the Brazil ea removal of criminal content without a court order.
Alessandro Soares recalls that the National Congress has the power to attack the president’s regulatory decrees, but believes that this should not happen.
“You can look at it from a political perspective, and politically the opposition seems to have no interest in this project. But when we look at the content, in order to make this decision, there needs to be a violation of the Constitution. And looking at the content of the decree, I don’t think this argument will be easy. Many jurists talk about the possibility of censorship, but I don’t see it that way and I think this is a superficial and hasty reading”, he says.
Commentator Helio Beltrão understands that the Congress needs to overturn President Lula’s decree.
“Lula’s decrees are yet another act of this theater of censorship. It began at the beginning of the government with Flávio Dino, when he was Minister of Justice and tried to frame the Big Techs. It then gained momentum when the Federal Supreme Court rewrote part of the internet’s civil framework. And now, the government is exploiting the loopholes that the Supreme Court left and is regulating the networks, but bypassing the National Congress for this, it is legislating. The objective of the government and the STF is for networks to censor themselves”, he says.
The Freedom of Opinion section airs every Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 am during the CNN New Day. Watch today’s full program in the video above.
