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

I'm thankful for Sunshine for posting this. She's a real one!

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

Common Brazil W

Brazil has been on it lately. At least with sticking it to tech bros

Did not expect Brazil to be the hero we need right now, but I’m here for it.

based lula

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

"We don't have to pretend anymore."

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

Meta: we don't have any

"we hate gays"

How many bribes is Meta going to have to pay out?

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

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