The Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPF) and the Federal Office of Public Defense (DPU) have applied to the Federal Court to demand the payment of compensation for collective moral damages to Google and four military police officers. From the digital platform MPF and DPU charge R$ 1 million. Give PM R$ 200 thousand each.
The request for financial compensation was brought in a public civil action due to the spread of hate speech and incitement to violence in posts on podcast programs and videocasts on YouTube, a Google platform.
According to the authors, the civil action, filed on Tuesday 30, aims to delete some posts and regulate the contents transmitted by police officers in podcast and videocast programs on the platform, to prevent abuses of the right to freedom of expression. The MPF and DPU also asked Google to supervise and moderate content published on the Copcast, Fala Glauber, Café com a Política and Danilo Snider channels.
The case began to be investigated by the Regional Prosecutor’s Office for Citizens’ Rights (PRDC) of the MPF, in Rio de Janeiro, following a report published by Ponte Jornalismo, showing excerpts of videos of police officers confessing crimes in programs published on Youtube with impunity. In the videos, military personnel report violent approaches to deaths and cases of violence and attacks against women and children, as revealed by the independent journalism website.
The action also calls on the State of Rio de Janeiro to take measures to prevent hateful or dangerous speech by members of the Military Police. Disciplinary measures must be adopted for the MPF and DPU, regulating the use of social networks by military personnel. The provision requires monitoring the improper use of these platforms by public agents, since, according to the agencies, there is a spread of posts by police officers with violent and discriminatory content, “which incite violence and stigmatize women poor, black and peripheral communities”.
Wanted by State, Google and police officers Jocimar dos Santos Ramos (CopCast), Glauber Cortes Mendonça (Fala Glauber), Danilo Martins Barboza (Danilo Snider) and Kauam Pagliarini Felipe (Café com a Política) did not respond by the time the report was completed.
Source: Terra
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