The minister, of the (Supreme Federal Court), mentioned this Wednesday (11) the changes that X (former) underwent after being purchased by in 2022. By not mentioning the name of the businessman, the magistrate looked at the colleague and said he was a well-known billionaire, but that he didn’t know his name. They both laughed at the provocation.
When he addressed Moraes, he cited a report according to which X and stopped publishing reports on accounts suspended by court decision since it was purchased by Musk.
“In that journalistic piece it is stated that since the social network Twitter was purchased in 2022 by a well-known billionaire, I don’t know, Minister Alexandre, who he is…. do you know what happened? There was a mass dismissal of employees who were responsible for moderation “, he said.
Moraes was the protagonist in the clash between the court and the billionaire this year, by suspending the operation of the social network in Brazil and applying after the company’s refusal to appoint a legal representative.
Fux voted to expand the responsibility of platforms and argued that networks must have an obligation to actively monitor clearly illegal content.
The rapporteur defended that platforms be held responsible for third-party content also in cases where they are “unequivocally aware of knowledge of illicit acts”, whether because they are “evident” or because they are “duly informed by any suitable means”, and do not do immediate removal of the content.
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