Lula echoes Moraes and states: "People cannot do online what is prohibited in society."
In a meeting with authorities to discuss combating violence in schools, the president harshly criticized big tech companies: "they make money from violence."
247 - President Lula (PT) held a large meeting this Tuesday morning (18) with heads of the Powers, ministers, governors and mayors to discuss the fight against attacks on schools throughout the country.
The meeting was marked by a firm speech from the Minister of the Supreme Federal Court (STF) and President of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Alexandre de Moraes, regarding the need for regulation of social media.
Lula strongly applauded Moraes, acknowledging him as the most knowledgeable person among the meeting's participants regarding the workings of hate networks on digital platforms.
The president then echoed the judge, stating that legislation needs to extend to digital territories to curb crimes committed in these environments. “The platforms, large companies that profit from spreading violence, are getting richer and richer. Some are the richest businessmen on planet Earth. And they continue to spread any lie, they have no criteria. That's why I would summarize this meeting with Alexandre de Moraes's phrase: people cannot do on the digital network what is prohibited in society. It's not possible that I can preach hatred on the digital network, that I can be promoting weapons, teaching children to shoot. That's what we see every single day. And the truth is that a six, seven, eight or nine-year-old child repeats at school what they hear at home. So we're not going to solve this problem just with money, raising the school wall, installing metal detectors. I imagine children being searched at school, how pathetic it would be for parents, for the mayor, for the governor, for the president of the Republic and for the institutions of this country, for an eight-year-old child to have to show their backpack.”