President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he will send to the National Congress, on Wednesday (13), a proposal for regulation of social networks.
“We will regulate because we need to create the minimum behavior and procedure in the operation of a digital network,” said the president in an interview with journalist Reinaldo Azevedo, from Band News.
For Lula, what happens today is that no one assumes responsibility for content in these environments.
The president argued that large technology corporations must be subject to rules in Brazil. He also criticized a letter from the United States government that claimed that US big techs did not accept to be regulated.
He recalled that the Supreme Court voted a decision in which the platforms are responsible for the content. “Therefore, if you have something serious, it is the platform that must take responsibility.”
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The president pointed out that the project has been in the Civil House for two months. “Tomorrow, at three o’clock in the afternoon, it will be at my table to settle existing differences among the ministers and send this to the National Congress to regulate,” he said.
Lula argued that it is not admissible to give up to ensure tranquility to children and adolescents who may be victims of attacks and pedophilia. “As we saw in the boy’s denunciation [o influenciador Felca]”.
According to him, Brazil must be concerned with crimes committed in digital networks that must be tried and punished. “This is not possible. That’s why we will regulate.”
In the interview, Lula said he hopes that he can ever meet with President Donald Trump and talk “like two civilized human beings and two heads of state.”
