Brazil has started enforcing a new online intermediary-liability regime that can make platforms responsible for user posts they do not remove after notice, with added duties around bots, paid content, and some serious crimes. The article says the change follows Brazil’s Supreme Court decision revising the old Marco Civil liability model and two late-May presidential decrees, including one focused on online violence against women; the measures add notice-and-takedown and duty-of-care obligations, while leaving concerns about systemic enforcement failures, surveillance, and overbroad censorship.
Why it matters: This matters to internet users, platforms, journalists, and civil society because it changes how quickly speech can be removed and may encourage over-censorship to avoid legal risk. People and organizations affected by online speech rules in Brazil should watch how appeals, bot rules, and duty-of-care enforcement are applied in practice.
Veridiana Alimonti
2026.08.20
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This article establishes the policy story by detailing the concrete implementation phase of Brazil’s new intermediary-liability regime through Supreme Court clarification and two presidential decrees.
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