On the one hand, I’m against censorship. But on the other, every bit of content on Facebook and X should be removed and all their hardware run through industrial shredders. It’s quite the conundrum.
It’s not censorship to hold people accountable for making editorial decisions on media platforms, and as long as FB, Twitter, and others are weighting different kinds of content in their algorithms (which they are), they should be held accountable financially and legally for the consequences.
I’m not sure this is a good thing. How will small Brazilian websites and forums be able to comply with these regulations? Sure, Meta and Google can afford to spend millions on content moderation. I don’t know if all sites can. I wonder how it will affect Brazilian lemmy instances, for example.
They won’t be able to. Tech laws in Brazil are incredibly archaic and non-sensical so this isn’t even registering with people cause Brazil is so far behind.
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If Fakebook or ex-Twatter suddely have to remove all hate-, shit-, and Nazi posts, they would probably be rather … empty?
The main problem is that the platforms have a money incentive to keep spam and scam posts online. They pay meta and TikTok for boosts, the scam gets boosted, all done.
Frankly, it seems like the problem could be solved by forcing the platforms to get a Know Your Customer level of information and putting that info on every boosted post, so people know who’s paying for that.
Buuuut, it’s Brazil. Justice and fairness only ever happen as side effects from judges’ decisions
Its so easy to implement a half-decent KYC these days. Thers a bit of KYC already but it’s so basic any scammedr can get around it all easily.
Meta in particular is so bad. I’ve been reporting straight up scam ads on threads for months now and they’re still there!
Last week, as this discussion was getting media attention, Meta said that “most of those posts only stay up for 4-8 hours before the (uploader) deletes it, before we’ve had time to review”
Dunno how truthful that statement is, but that really shows how easy it is to game their system
Yes but they should have manual approval of every ad. I don’t think thats too much to ask but somehow they’ve convinced some people to think that way.
