Comment on Brazil rules that social media platforms are responsible for users’ posts

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t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

It will make it extremely risky from a liability standpoint to operate any platform that allows users content. The EFF has a bunch of writeups on these types of laws. This is the last of a 4-part series on them: Link

Fediverse operators would for example be extremely vulnerable to lawsuits, because almost none of them can afford teams of lawyers to deal with claims, true or not, that they failed to enforce content policies.

It gives power to large corporations like Meta and Xitter, who can afford to handle legal threats.

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