The Minister of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), Alexandre de Moraes, has once again defended the “immediate regulation” of social networks. “Minimalist regulation is needed. Nobody wants to say what can or cannot be put (online), nobody wants to define what is real news. What we want is transparency of algorithmic criteria,” he said on Friday at the Lisbon Forum – discreet, 28.
The judge also reiterated that what he defines as the “new extremist digital populism” operates with the “total connivance” of social networks. “If in Brazil the big techs can say that before January 8 they didn’t know they were being exploited, after the 8th it’s impossible,” he said. “The greatest danger for the democratic rule of law is the exploitation of social networks by extremist groups. The far right has been able to exploit social networks to create bubbles in relation to these hate speeches and from these bubbles try to capture the attention will of the voter,” Moraes said.
The minister said he had “numerous meetings with big tech” and that, in one of them, he questioned platform representatives on how quickly they remove posts containing paedophilia, child pornography and copyright infringement. “They said that 92% of them remove it before giving a like,” said the minister, who defended that content moderation is “technologically” possible.
Moraes would have wondered, then, why social networks do not do it with hate speech. “Many of them said: if everyone does it, we will do it too. Otherwise, no. Why? It is an economic issue,” said the judge, who was president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) until May of this year.
The trial on the liability of digital platforms for content published by users is expected to resume in August, according to the President of the Supreme Court, Luís Roberto Barroso.
Source: Terra
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