Brazilian here, the situation around PL 2630 (aka the Fake News bill) is a huge mess.<p>We absolutely need more oversight over big tech and we had had real violence and threats tied to online radicalisation (like all the death threats to our justices, that time Sara Winter fired fireworks at the supreme court building, and the Jan 8th riots) so something has to be done but our Congress is to slow to lead the charge so we end up having to delegate rule making powers to specialized bodies but this time everyone is afraid of how this new internet [something] board will act as it's brand new and unpredictable.<p>As for why Google and others are stonewalling things, the answer is a mix of money and ideology. Many of those big tech companies come from the US and their approach to freedom of speech is very very different ours so what we see as business as usual they see as an attack on free speech. On the money part, complying with the new law will be very expensive and nobody likes extra costs.
They're not "stonewalling" anything. They essentially published their own opinion on the matter on their own website.<p>> After being accused of misleading advertisement by the justice ministry, it pulled the link<p>They weren't merely "accused", supreme court judges <i>ordered</i> Google to pull the link or face fines. Literal government censorship. They even ordered police to round up executives for "explanations". As if they owed them explanations over what's essentially a blog post.<p>Never ceases to amaze me the audacity of these jounalists to accuse others of spreading "fake news" while simultaneously and deliberately distorting the truth to this extent. If I see the words "fake news" anywhere, I assume it's malicious propaganda.<p>> That’s when big tech started saying there would be no more money to give their journalism programs, similar to what they told YouTube creators.<p>This must be what she's truly upset about. You're not entitled to Google's money.<p>They'd have to be stupid to invest in this place anyway. Who wants to invest millions in a near communist country where totalitarian judges can just fuck your shit up on a whim? Did you know the judges are deciding whether to make it illegal to fire people "without fair reason"? Just saw that in the news today. It boggles my mind that Google even employs people here at all.
Corporations tend to behave like sociopaths. In this case, it's the reluctance to do more against objectively harmful content because it would be expensive and probably cause a hit to ad revenues.