Brasília, 08 - The Lula government has concluded the drafting of two bills to regulate digital platforms. The texts received approval at the end of April, and now the involved ministers must meet to discuss the best political moment to send them to Congress. One of the projects was built by the Secretariat of Digital Rights (Sedigi), from the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, and the other by the Secretariat of Economic Reforms (SRE), from the Ministry of Finance. Both were in the final adjustments in an interministerial working group at the Civil House. The Sedigi proposal is a kind of Consumer Protection Code for internet users. The text proposes measures to mitigate risks according to the digital service offered and focuses more on consumer rights than punishing platforms. For example, it aims to provide greater transparency to social network users, such as terms of use and identification of advertising. It also obliges companies to employ proactive measures to remove content that constitutes serious crime, such as child sexual exploitation, terrorism, and incitement to suicide and self-harm, especially among children and adolescents. The Sedigi's concern was to propose a different logic from the 2630/2020 project, known as the Fake News Bill, which was buried in April last year after losing political viability. The project thought up by the Finance Ministry, on the other hand, targets the social media platform market and deals with economic and competitive aspects. The text expands, above all, the power of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade) to investigate and define new obligations for companies. The idea is to combat, for example, potential monopolies in the provision of services, ads, or searches, and other forms of abuse of power.
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