> <i>Justice Minister Flavio Dino said Google had two hours after being notified to change a link on its search engine that connects to material that argues against the regulation bill and urges readers to call their representatives to vote against it.</i><p>Linking to material that doesn't support an awful bullshit law. Going to be fined $200k/hr if they didn't take down the link.<p>Google can't even advocate for themaelves, according to Brazil. Illiberal, un-Democratic, & thin skinned.<p>See also Brazil ordering a bunnch of CEOs to testify. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35792246" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35792246</a><p>Letting each country regulate the internet as they see fit is not sustainable. The information superhighway is being demolished by the egocentric greed of nations.
The new Brazilian government still dreams of rebuilding in South America what was lost in the Soviet Block.<p>They are hard-line socialists and as good authoritarian socialists they want to control and regulate every aspect of the daily life.<p>This has nothing to do with "fake news" but with media regulation and opposition strangulation. During the last year election period the Constitutional rights of freedom of speech were lifted to avoid "fake news" during the process. The result: only conservative/right content was censored. Real facts like President Lula association with dictators (for example Nicaragua's Ortega) was censored.<p>The West supported Lula strongly during election and now is slowly realized the huge mistake this was. Lula supports China and Russia, hates the US and dreams of a Great Motherland uniting all South America countries into a big latino socialist republic...
It seems the rationale is Google is abusing market power as a interested party, by weaponising the home page of its main product, Google search, to attack the proposal.