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Brazil's Supreme Court clears way to hold social media liable for user content

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-supreme-court-social-media-ruling-324b9d79caa9f9e063da8a4993e382e1
35•rbanffy•4h ago

Comments

infotainment•2h ago
I'd rather just a full blanket ban on social media, but I guess it's something.

Social media is basically what cigarettes were in the 50s: everyone uses it, and seemingly no one is aware of how it is almost entirely bad.

russdill•2h ago
All this does if make things worse. Things like banning the sale of personal information would be a step in the right direction.
andrekandre•1h ago

  > Things like banning the sale of personal information would be a step in the right direction.
it really seems like its the business model that is the real issue. especially with regards to algorithms favoring "engagement" which leads to promotion of rage-baiting and concern-trolling among many other pathological contents.
infotainment•1h ago
I suspect social media's biggest problems (engagement bait, brainrot, echo chambers, etc), would generally not be fixed even with a ban on sale of personal data.
123yawaworht456•1h ago
you're on a social medium right now.
gjvnq•59m ago
A big issue here would be defining social media.

Are forums social media? What about reddit? What about YouTube?

I think what we really need is a ban on algorithmic recommendations that seek to encourage engagement or total time spent on the app.

infotainment•47m ago
I think this is a reasonable take; a good start would be banning all forms of algorithmic "discovery" recommendations, and things like "for you" feeds.
anitil•1h ago
I will be interested in how this plays out. I believe it's Section 230 [0] that allows US platforms to not be held liable. I'd be keen to understand whether this effectively bans social media (and comment sections?) from Brazil, or whether people need to click an I-promise-I'm-not-Brazilian button to access them.

[0] Not a lawyer so wikipedia is the best I have - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230

gjvnq•1h ago
Brazilian here. We still don't know if small things like comment sections and personal blogs will be under the new rules as our supreme court hasn't made any explicit exemption but their debates on the topic focused only on big techs. There is a chance an appeal will be filed to seek this kind of clarification.

As for buttons "I promisse I'm not Brazilian", that wouldn't really fly if the company in question has a lot of users in Brazil.

I suspect that we will see government enforcement only against big techs (especially Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube).

I genuinely doubt there will be many lawsuits targeting small websites because there isn't money to be made off them. So any litigation here will probably be restricted to personal revenge cases or something like it.

I really wish this had been settled in Congress with more cleat rules and language instead of decided by the courts.

mastotoot•1h ago
US Social Media should just cancel service to that territory.
mastotoot•1h ago
What is the difference in cost to provide the service?
andrenth•17m ago
“Brazilian Supreme Court suddenly deems 11-year-old law unconstitutional after their own corruption is exposed on social media”
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