The Supreme Court asked them to block the delivery of content inside of Brazil, for brazilians in Brazil's territory.
It doesnt matter where the original account is stored.
Those accounts are part of a large network of fake news spreading, with a lot of cash apparently originating from the country government itself..
The individuals themselves keep all the free speech rights.. they can go to newspapers, social media or speak on the streets. The only thing that is blocked its the accounts that are bounded to this fake news network process being judged by the supreme court.
Free speech cant be used as an excuse to constantly commit abuses and crimes that menace to demolish democratic institutions.
Democracy must have means to protect itself from malicious actors that are massively lying in a industrial scale fomented by big money from populists that dreams becoming dictators.
If part of this money is public, this is even worse.
We should have learned at least one or two about how the proto-fascists used every immoral and even illegal trick in the book to turn a democratic society into a fascist nightmare.
> The Supreme Court asked them to block the delivery of content inside of Brazil, for brazilians in Brazil's territory.
If you read the article it’s saying the court is asking Facebook to block delivery of certain content globally, not only within Brazil. And they are threatening a local Facebook employee with criminal liability, which is the reason Facebook says it has complied with the order while appealing it.
The individuals in question, after being blocked on portuguese language, just changed their profiles as they were in english. It was just a matter of people that follow them changing their preferences making the court order ineffective. (Again their content were being delivered to Brazilian followers)
Than the court sent another order to block the content for Brazil of those specific profiles, in a way the content were not delivered to brazilian citizens.
This is exactly what the court order is saying..
Now if Facebook or Twitter cant act on geolocation, its a technical problem, that they need to solve, as its just a matter of blocking based on geolocation of the people who are seeing that content, the target, and not just the source.
I've read the court order, and it does not cover people from other nationalities, as if we follow whats being said on the court order, they are not the target.
Now if Facebook cant deliver this, they are just asking to loose the battle giving its pretty easy to destroy the narrative.
BTW, Brazil are more akin to Europe's convention to free speech, as to remediate things like "hate speech" learning from the past with the way fascist regimes spread out over Europe.
I dont know why Facebook feels entitled somehow to think the US way of seeing and working with free speech should be forced on others sovereign nations.
No, they have fined Facebook for not complying with this decision for the past two months and are increasing the fines if Facebook keeps refusing to comply.
