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Brazil: Adoption of provisional measure prohibiting social media platforms from banning certain content

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Adoption of provisional measure prohibiting social media platforms from banning certain content

On 6 September 2021, Jair Bolsonaro signed a provisional measure decree (No. 1068). Under the new rules, tech companies can only censor content, when it concerns threats of violence, terrorism, sexual crimes and cyberattacks, among others. Significa…

Scope

Policy Area
Content moderation
Policy Instrument
User speech right
Regulated Economic Activity
platform intermediary: user-generated content
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
central government

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2021-05-17
under deliberation

President Jair Bolsonaro announces the draft of a decree which would make it illegal to delete cont…

2021-09-06
adopted

On 6 September 2021, Jair Bolsonaro signed a provisional measure decree (No. 1068). Under the new r…

2021-09-14
revoked

The Supreme Federal Court, the supreme court of Brazil, has suspended the provisional measure decre…

2021-09-14
rejected

The president of the Federal Senate, the Upper House of Brazil's National Congress, has returned pr…