3w ago

Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain new fact-check policies

globalnation.inquirer.net /260785/brazil-gives-meta-72-hours-to-explain-new-fact-check-policies

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- Double entendre: “eu” means “me” in Portuguese
- It's a rare W, but a welcome one.
- Eu isn’t doing shit tho. Twitter and meta do just fine here.
  
  Hve you heard of GDPR? USB-C mandate? Right to repair?

I'm thankful for Sunshine for posting this. She's a real one!
- And I'm also thankful for those who have upvoted this post instead of some generic US politics one. Gives some very needed diversity to the front page.
  
  Proceeds to bring up the US anyway

Makes sense for any country tondo this because as has become clear, it doesn't matter if you're a democracy or a dictatorship, if you are liking musk and face or not, X and meta can and will destabilize your country and once it happens, there is nothing you can do about it except banning the entire site, which will be an unpopular choice.
Musk especially has shown to be all about himself and he'll just push whatever political right wing party to destabilize a country.
Fuck x, fuck Facebook
- Calling Twitter "X"??? One should not.
  
  Oh yeah, though at this point who cares, it's all bullshit

Brazil has been on it lately. At least with sticking it to tech bros
- Yeah, they found out they could win, when they stuck it to X and straight up banned them until they complied.
  Just like the big tech companies have different ToS for EU consumers.
  Mad respect to them, but it should be normal. But it's not.
  
  Also like California passing public health laws and companies deciding it is easier to comply to the entire U.S. instead of duplicating product lines.
- All the BRICS have. Brazil just stands out, because its not a country we've flagged as "Evil Enemy Run By Inhuman Savages".
  
  because its not a country we’ve flagged as “Evil Enemy Run By Inhuman Savages”.
  Unless the subject is Amazon deforestation, in which case we have to stop these inhuman savages from destroying this global patrimony (mine). Please don't ask who's buying the cattle and soy being grown there or running the mining companies or where I got all this fertile land.
  
  It also helps that unlike the R and the C in BRICS, they aren't imperialists threatening and/or invading their neighbours. Brazil is a good world citizen.
  
  Not all, India is in BRICS and they are part of the problem in the tech world.
  
  Not India afaik

Common Brazil W

Brasil, please ban facebook. First twitter then facebook. Fuck the gready corporate assholes. Someone needs to make a first step and create a precedent, we need this. Social media will be (already is) the downfall of our civilization.

According to the extrajudicial notice, this allows users to associate sexual identity to “a mental illness or abnormality” and allows “the defense of professional limitations based on gender.”
Why does anyone associate with this site. It's beyond me.
- I feel like it’s just boomers at this point
  
  Facebook maybe, but I'm dumbfounded by how many people in my life are actively using Instagram.

"We don't have to pretend anymore."

- Is there any way to hide embedded images on lemmy?
  These are pretty annoying.
  
  Use Lynx browser, if that's even still a thing?
  EDIT: It is!

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine Brazil apparently propping up the internet, but huge swathes of twitter shutdown when Brazil banned it a while back, for a short time.
- It's easy to be bold when the US president is weak. I don't think they'd ban X if Trump was president at the time.
  
  Hahahahahaha, that was a good one. Do another one where you pretend Trump wasn't the biggest, weakest idiot ever to hold this office.
  
  Confessed serial rapist Donald Trump is one of the weakest presidents we've ever had, the fuck are you talking about. We, quite literally, have video of world leaders laughing at him to his face. Jeff Epstein's best friend who bragged that they have the same "On the younger side" tastes didn't accomplish a single one of his campaign promises the first time, other than tax cuts for the super rich.
  
  So strong he needs both hands to drink a glass of water?
  Or is it the way he literally shits himself in the middle of a rally? Oh wait, of course! Cause the only thing strong about that dementia riddled moron is his stench.
  Imagine looking at Trump and thinking, "Wow, him strong!" Fucking weird, I tell ya what...
  
  Because he'd do what about another country banning a privately owned website?
  
  It’s easy to be bold when the US president is weak.
  Vladimir Putin agrees and is greatly looking forward to it.
  
  Lmfao traitor filth trump is the weakest piece of useless shit to ever disgrace the office of the presidency.
  
  Hehe, I for one am going to enjoy watching the U.S. economy tank for the next four years and take the maga idiots down a notch or two.
  
  Yeah, Trump is so strong and respected that everyone at the UN laughed at his stupid face when he said he'd accomplished more in 2 years than most administrations in the history of the US.

Did not expect Brazil to be the hero we need right now, but I’m here for it.
- Brazil has at least some history of fighting against tech giant's disrespect of regularions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Twitter_in_Brazil
  
  I wonder how much biased is this article (in the sense that it was written mostly by male US citizens).
  
  Lula be right more often than not. Oops I mean left.

Meta's anti-LGBT rules are closely knit to their ending the fact-checking: It is science denialism and linked to racism and vaccine skepticism.
Homosexuality and gender identity are not considered mental illnesses, Sex is not a binary, and Race is not connected to intelligence.
Bigots never liked science on these three, and now they use political power to impose their narrative.
Meta never moderated such discourse. Nor reddit nor twitter nor youtube. There was no censorship to end here. What this is, it is a free pass to punch down trans and gay people. It is incitement to violence, and Zuckerberg and Musk must go to the gallows for it.
Don't get me started on the toxic harassment these platforms have allowed against African and Carribean reparation activists, how they have destroyed the lives of feminists, and how they have named all Palestinians terrorists.
At this point race realists and gender essentialists have ensured political and technological control of the narrative.
There is no room for debating sealioning trolls on this one. If they don't understand the social dynamics against gender/sex/minorities at this moment, they are no better than brownshirts.
It is permabans and hooks and jabs all the way, for every single weird freak that backs this deranged hateful shit.

Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain new fact-check policies>
Meta: we don't have any

Brazil's based, now?
- Enjoy it while it lasts. We like to immitate the US so in 2026 it's very likely that we'll elect a reactionary idiot again.
  
  If you ban social media companies that don't regulate their shit you won't.

How many bribes is Meta going to have to pay out?
- Community note: Bribes are illegal and won't be tolerated in sparkly clean Brazil.

couldn't they just turn off brazil? they do this to myanmar all the time

For some completely unrelated reason, I suddenly have this song stuck in my head...
https://www.tiktok.com/@originalsinfluencer/video/7443873893430971678

Brazil needs to solve their high homicide rate before demanding things from Meta. Serving the people instead of being petty.
- You know, countries can do more than one thing at a time
  
  Brazil has rampant poverty, high homicide rates, and corruption. Meta is the least of their problem. Get to work...

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