Lira says that big techs crossed all limits and prevented the Chamber from legislating

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‘The pressure was horrible, inhuman and lying’, said mayor one day after holding a vote on the issue

Brasilia DF) – The mayor, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), said this Wednesday (3) that big techs exceeded all limits of prudence by promoting “inhuman” and “lying” pressure against federal deputies and preventing the PL vote. of Fake News.

The deputy also said that he called the Chamber’s lawyers to study the possibility of filing lawsuits against the platforms that put pressure on the bill.

“Big techs have crossed all limits of prudence. If we can compare, it is as if they had prevented the operation of a power. And, in comparative law, we are going to look for all the means to bring an action taking responsibility for the almost horror act that they practiced in the lives of the deputies in the week of the vote on the matter”, he told GloboNews.

The mayor also said that he received reports from parliamentarians who suffered physical threats through social networks – which will also be investigated by the House.

“Using your instruments to boost, hinder or restrict the other party from moving, and then converging all the means that [as plataformas] hold, with the algorithms that have influence on the states. The pressure was horrible, inhumane and lying – that’s the worst thing”, said Lira.

“If they had dealt with facts, there would have been no problem. But [as plataformas] they sold a completely distorted theme, assuming that the Chamber of Deputies was voting on a project that would censor, muzzle and take away freedom of expression. This is not what we stand for and will never stand for.”

A day earlier, Lira postponed the vote on the Fake News PL, in an attempt to avoid the main defeat of the political articulation of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) since the beginning of the current term.

The postponement was decided amid pressure from the opposition and after a reaction by the government and Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF (Federal Supreme Court), against the offensive made by big techs to bar the proposal.

Lira, who met with Lula in the morning, said in the afternoon that she only intended to keep the PL voting if there was enough support. At night, after the project’s rapporteur, Deputy Orlando Silva (PC do B-SP), asked, the mayor confirmed the postponement – without setting a new date for consideration in plenary.

Earlier, the mayor had already signaled that, if there was not enough support, he would postpone the vote. “If you don’t have a vote, my intention is that you don’t vote today”, he said, upon arriving at the Chamber in the late afternoon of this Tuesday (2).

Asked whether the postponement could bury the proposal, Lira denied: “What is buried is defeat. Defeat buries”.

*With information from Folha de S.Paulo

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