Did not expect Brazil to be the hero we need right now, but I’m here for it.
Brazil has at least some history of fighting against tech giant’s disrespect of regularions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Twitter_in_Brazil
Yeah and I wasn’t expecting that one either. Sounds like I should start to, though.
I wonder how much biased is this article (in the sense that it was written mostly by male US citizens).
Lula be right more often than not. Oops I mean left.
It’s some high judge so I think they are independent from the government but I don’t know their system well.
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.
It is permabans and hooks and jabs all the way, for every single weird freak that backs this deranged hateful shit.
I agree. As a mod on LW myself I have to wonder how far the admin are willing to go to enforce such a policy. Are they really going to start removing mods for banning trolls and bigots‽
*Edit: oops, I got the posts mixed up. I thought this was the post about lemmy.world’s new policy on debating trolls instead of banning them.
Is there any way to hide embedded images on lemmy?
These are pretty annoying.
Use Lynx browser, if that’s even still a thing?
EDIT: It is!
I’ve always preferred w3m or links over lynx.
Always one of the first things I install with a new Arch Linux install! Not because it’s useful or anything, I’m not delusional, but because it’s hella cool
A modern use case: I like RSS in my terminal so I use newsboat but hate it opening firefox and swapping me out of the terminal when I want to read more. So I have it use lynx instead.
I also have a computer without a DE that can browse the web (lynx), look at pictures (JP2a), watch movies (I don’t recall the name of the program but it converts the video to ASCII), edit word docs (take your pick), and send email (mail).
as a PSA, before 🫵you post images on the internet, it’s important to put alt text whenever you can. Some people need screen readers to acess the web, and it can give context to help understand it. Give a good description, and if there’s text on it, include that in the alt text. Acessibility is important!
“We don’t have to pretend anymore.”
How many bribes is Meta going to have to pay out?
Community note: Bribes are illegal and won’t be tolerated in sparkly clean Brazil.
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.
It’s easy to be bold when the US president is weak. I don’t think they’d ban X if Trump was president at the time.
Lmfao traitor filth trump is the weakest piece of useless shit to ever disgrace the office of the presidency.
Hahahahahaha, that was a good one. Do another one where you pretend Trump wasn’t the biggest, weakest idiot ever to hold this office.
I don’t know, Buchanan let the civil war happen?
Mine and everyone else’s lifetime though for sure.
Hehe, I for one am going to enjoy watching the U.S. economy tank for the next four years and take the maga idiots down a notch or two.
those maga idiots will use that as proof there’s a global conspiracy against america and that their only protection is donald trump
Confessed serial rapist Donald Trump is one of the weakest presidents we’ve ever had, the fuck are you talking about. We, quite literally, have video of world leaders laughing at him to his face. Jeff Epstein’s best friend who bragged that they have the same “On the younger side” tastes didn’t accomplish a single one of his campaign promises the first time, other than tax cuts for the super rich.
It’s easy to be bold when the US president is weak.
Vladimir Putin agrees and is greatly looking forward to it.
Yeah, Trump is so strong and respected that everyone at the UN laughed at his stupid face when he said he’d accomplished more in 2 years than most administrations in the history of the US.
So strong he needs both hands to drink a glass of water?
Or is it the way he literally shits himself in the middle of a rally? Oh wait, of course! Cause the only thing strong about that dementia riddled moron is his stench.
Imagine looking at Trump and thinking, “Wow, him strong!” Fucking weird, I tell ya what…
Because he’d do what about another country banning a privately owned website?
Whatever his sugar daddy tells him to do
Gonna demand that Brazil be handed over to the US the same way he’s demanding the US own the Panama Canal, Greenland, and Canada?
If only we were SO STRONG!!!
Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain new fact-check policies>
Meta: we don’t have any
They do, tho. It’s community notes. If multiple people agree on a correction, especially if those people usually disagree with eachother, it becomes the note
Common Brazil W
Brazil needs to solve their high homicide rate before demanding things from Meta. Serving the people instead of being petty.
why?
Let’s talk about their homicide rate. In 2022, the country with the largest number of trans people murdered was Brazil.
Do you think that a platform that now allows open anti-trans bigotry will make that problem better or worse?
Your fallacies-to-words ratio is outstanding.
You know, countries can do more than one thing at a time
Brazil has rampant poverty, high homicide rates, and corruption. Meta is the least of their problem. Get to work…
Yeah, cause those are totally related…somehow…really, I promise!
What the fuck are you smoking??? Please don’t share. Seriously.
You need to solve your downvote rate before posting.
not always considering bolsonaro existed and was a tech bros wet dream
Eu isn’t doing shit tho.
Hve you heard of GDPR? USB-C mandate? Right to repair?
Right to repair? Repair what? Surely not a new iphone.
Do you seriously think that meta cares for your personal data if youre European? No? Then how come they are allowed to operate?
The right to repair laws will take effect in (at the latest) July 30 2026.
Manufactures have until then to decide what to do. Maybe Apple will just straight pull out of EU or comply by then.
It’s a painfully slow process but better than not even trying like all other states on this planet.
Edit: source https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/consumer-protection-law/directive-repair-goods_en
The EU fined Meta multiple billions. You can always do more, but it’s a start
How is that a start if their services are still profitable and poisonous to every mind exposed to them?
dont let perfection stop progress
And the lawsuits keep pouring in.
It’s a rare W, but a welcome one.
Double entendre: “eu” means “me” in Portuguese
Nice
Brazil’s based, now?
Enjoy it while it lasts. We like to immitate the US so in 2026 it’s very likely that we’ll elect a reactionary idiot again.
If you ban social media companies that don’t regulate their shit you won’t.
If we ban social media companies* we won’t.
Privately owned social media is a tool of media manipulation. You can change the weights of some inscrutable algorithm and boost exposure to political ideologies that you want while no one can truly make a case against you, “it’s just the algorithm” they say. There’s no scenario where they should be allowed to exist in a sovereign country.
Good. At least someone is saying something.
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.
Sadly I don’t think it will happen since we are extremely dependent on whatsapp because our SMS sucked ass since the inception, messages were costly and always arrived late.
Should get off of centralized services anyway. They could make it so that whatever app you used you could send messages to any other. Like with phone service providers, email or Lemmy etc.
People in general are too stupid to integrate these solutions in their daily lives, you should know better.
I meant countries should enforce encrypted intercommunication between apps by law.
A countries communications shouldn’t be tied to any one app. It’s becoming a national security issue and giving too much power to foreign corporations.
Maybe different features between users of the same app so that there is choice, but still having that fallback so someone on one app can still have secure communication with users of another app.
Currently the situation is like if you needed Gmail to email people with Gmail and Outlook to email people with Outlook.
couldn’t they just turn off brazil? they do this to myanmar all the time
