Flávio Dino: ‘No chain will have greater regulation than the law’ – 04/13/2023 – Cotidiano

Minister Flávio Dino (Justice and Public Security) said this Thursday (13) that no company will have greater regulation than the laws in force in the country.

The speech takes place one day after the Lula government (PT) defined that social networks that do not take measures to combat content advocating violence and threats of attacks on schools may have their activities suspended in Brazil.

“I have made it very clear: no company is going to be regulated more than the laws of the country. It is a fundamental principle of a sovereign country”, said Dino in an interview with journalists in Rio de Janeiro.

The ordinance published on Wednesday (12) by the Ministry of Justice provides for fines of up to R$ 12 million for companies that refuse to follow the new regulations.

On Thursday, Dino mentioned “positive signs” that the networks would be willing to help in the fight against such content.

“Yesterday’s signs are very positive, in the sense that companies will help us so that videos of mutilation, violence in schools, past violence or promises of future violence do not continue to invade our cell phones and other devices. children, our grandchildren and our nephews. It is a civilizational battle”, he said.

Earlier, Dino mentioned that the biggest companies in the world today are the giants in the technology field.

“Great powers must correspond to proportional duties”, evaluated the minister.

The government’s initiatives were taken after a series of attacks on schools across the country. The government sees social networks as fertile ground for the proliferation of these events and wants to force platforms to take measures to prevent the circulation of violent content.

Such as Sheet showed, two networks have worried the authorities: Twitter and Telegram.

Twitter’s position caused discomfort in a meeting promoted by the Ministry of Justice on Monday (10) with representatives of social networks.

The platform initially refused to remove content from profiles identified by the ministry that advocate violence in schools on the grounds that the platform’s term of use allows the dissemination of the material.

This Wednesday, there was another meeting with Twitter. At the meeting, the platform said it responded to all 546 requests from the folder and took down the accounts that made apologies for violence and threats to schools.