Brazil Tightens Digital Platform Oversight With Updated Internet Framework

Decree aims to protect victims of digital fraud, sexual exploitation of minors, human trafficking, and violence against women by enabling identification of perpetrators and compensation processes.

In a ceremony timed to mark 100 days of Brazil's National Pact Against Femicide, President Lula signed a decree reshaping the country's digital governance, placing new obligations on platforms that profit from Brazilian users regardless of where those companies are incorporated. The update to the 2016 Marco Civil de Internet reflects a broader global reckoning with the question of who bears responsibility for the harms that flourish in digital spaces — the users who create content, or the companies that amplify and monetize it. Brazil's answer, for now, is the latter, with a newly empowered Da

Brazil Tightens Digital Platform Oversight With Updated Internet Framework

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