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

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

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

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.
If countries don't start taking modern warfare seriously everyone is going to end up in far right authoritarian regimes that won't accept election results. Bolsonaro would love to come back and never leave.

Common Brazil W

not always considering bolsonaro existed and was a tech bros wet dream
Double entendre: “eu” means “me” in Portuguese
- Nice
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?

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".
- 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.
- Oh yeah, Russia is real good at keeping those tech oligarchs in check /s
  
  BRICS is such a loosely linked group that generalising like that is just never going to be accurate; Indian and South African, for example, policy on tech regulation couldn't be more different if they tried.
  
  Don't get me wrong, I think BRICS is a good organisation for economic cooperation between these very diverse countries, but there's really no common political, social or economic characteristics.
  
  Brazil is a good example of that, because under Bolsonaro, it couldn't have been more different - regulations on big tech and banning X would never have happened under his tenure (well, at least not with the same goals)
- Not all, India is in BRICS and they are part of the problem in the tech world.
- 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.
- Not India afaik
It's not on my 2025 bingo card I'll admit, but I'm here for it.
And I love them for it.
Truth. Also stop deforestation

based lula

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.
- Yeah and I wasn't expecting that one either. Sounds like I should start to, though.

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.

Sadly I don't think it will happen since we are extremely dependent on whatsapp because our SMS sucked ass since the inception, messages were costly and always arrived late.
- Should get off of centralized services anyway. They could make it so that whatever app you used you could send messages to any other. Like with phone service providers, email or Lemmy etc.

Giving 72h to reply on a Friday is a nice touch ;⁠-⁠)

"there is none". Explained in 10 seconds. Happy weekend!

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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hahahahahaha, that was a good one. Do another one where you pretend Trump wasn't the biggest, weakest idiot ever to hold this office.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.

Good. At least someone is saying something. More people and companies should voice their opinion.

Is there any way to hide embedded images on lemmy?

These are pretty annoying.
- as a PSA, before 🫵you post images on the internet, it's important to put alt text whenever you can. Some people need screen readers to acess the web, and it can give context to help understand it. Give a good description, and if there's text on it, include that in the alt text. Acessibility is important!
- Use Lynx browser, if that's even still a thing?
  
  EDIT: It is!
- Maybe some specific frontend or mobile app.

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.

It is permabans and hooks and jabs all the way, for every single weird freak that backs this deranged hateful shit.

I agree. As a mod on LW myself I have to wonder how far the admin are willing to go to enforce such a policy. Are they really going to start removing mods for banning trolls and bigots‽

*Edit: oops, I got the posts mixed up. I thought this was the post about lemmy.world's new policy on debating trolls instead of banning them.

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."

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

Meta: we don't have any

They do, tho. It's community notes. If multiple people agree on a correction, especially if those people usually disagree with eachother, it becomes the note

"we hate gays"

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.

Brazil needs to solve their high homicide rate before demanding things from Meta. Serving the people instead of being petty.

Let's talk about their homicide rate. In 2022, the country with the largest number of trans people murdered was Brazil.

Do you think that a platform that now allows open anti-trans bigotry will make that problem better or worse?
Your fallacies-to-words ratio is outstanding.
You need to solve your downvote rate before posting.
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...
Yeah, cause those are totally related...somehow...really, I promise!

What the fuck are you smoking??? Please don't share. Seriously.
why?

For some completely unrelated reason, I suddenly have this song stuck in my head...

https://www.tiktok.com/@originalsinfluencer/video/7443873893430971678