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.
Governments tend to behave like sociopaths as well. And people in government seek to maximize their interests. Not saying that things can't be improved but sometimes doing more in unmoral, harmful and even illegal.
Governments at least are elected and have a lot of checks and balances imposed on them. Law is deliberately more relaxed on the other direction because people doesn’t have the same power a government has.
Which brings up an interesting question - should these checks and balances be proportional to power? In that a corporation like Twitter or Google, that has immense power over society, should have the same kind of burdensome regulation?
> In that a corporation like Twitter or Google, that has immense power over society, should have the same kind of burdensome regulation?
Maybe but I have more trust in Google than in government. And it's also a lot easier to opt-out from Google than government. In theory governments put big corporations in check but sometimes governments get in bed with corporations to fuck everybody else. In the case of this bill it looks like it will move power from big tech, small media and individuals to old media conglomerates. BTW many politicians in Brazil own local radio stations and newspapers. So it's clear to me that in this case the proposed regulation do more harm than good.
> Governments at least are elected and have a lot of checks and balances imposed on them.
The supreme court in Brazil isn't elected and doesn't have functional checks and balances in place. Recently they ordered the arrest of hundreds, they temporarily suspended an elected governor, they censored Google and Twitter because they dared to stonewall this bill. They can bypass the legislative process by changing the meaning of laws. Felipe Neto, an youtuber with millions of subscribers that is aligned with the government and supports this bill threatened those that opposed the bill that if the bill don't pass the supreme court will legislate in place of congress. This is the new normal, Brazil is slowly becoming a judicial dictatorship. BTW, that abject creature made his career spreading hate and disinformation in the Internet.