Did not expect Brazil to be the hero we need right now, but I’m here for it.
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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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.
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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.
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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.
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According to the extrajudicial notice, this allows users to associate sexual identity to “a mental illness or abnormality” and allows “the defense of professional limitations based on gender.”
Why does anyone associate with this site. It's beyond me.
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
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.
Giving 72h to reply on a Friday is a nice touch ;-)
"there is none". Explained in 10 seconds. Happy weekend!
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.
"We don't have to pretend anymore."