2024-09-13 09:45:05
The authorities of various countries act against certain social networks claiming that they violate laws. The companies that own these social networks accuse the authorities of exercising censorship and curtailing freedom of expression. The debate is attended.
Recently, the social network On the other hand, in France the founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, was arrested on charges of allowing illegal activities such as drug trafficking, prostitution or money laundering to take place there. In addition, the design of the social network TikTok is being investigated by the European Union, seeing that it is addictive and can expose minors to harmful effects.
The social network For his part, President Lula da Silva supported the judge and, in an interview with the local media, said: “Just because he has money does not mean he can do what he wants. “You have to accept the rules of the land and respect the judgment of the Supreme Court.” The mayor, in turn, accused the Brazilian judge of being a racist and not complying with the Constitution.
Telegram case
In late August, the founder of the instant messaging network Pavel Durov was arrested in France on charges of allowing illegal activities on the application. The incident is part of an investigation into the lack of moderators that allow criminal activities to take place.
Therefore, Durov is being investigated for alleged crimes such as complicity in money laundering, distribution of child sexual images, drug trafficking and organized crime. Although he was released on bail of 5 million euros, the condition is that he must report to the police station twice a week and not leave France.
TikTok is also under the microscope
In February of this year, the European Union launched an investigation into TikTok for its lack of protection measures for minors, advertising transparency, access to data for researchers, risk management of addictive design and harmful content.
The European Union has a particular interest in complying with the Law on Digital Services, which is related to mitigating the negative effects that the design of the social network may have, respect for the rights of the child as well as evaluating the effectiveness of the tools. this should verify the real age of minors so that they do not have access to inappropriate content.
Digital social network concept art hobby. (Photo: Amazings/NCYT)
Regulations in digital situations
Social networks play a central role today, everything that happens in the digital world is correlated in the tangible world and vice versa. The rise of the big platforms has made them very powerful, and as a result, concerns have arisen about the risks of accumulating too much power in a few hands.
In fact, in recent times the owners of the platforms, such as Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg, have moved their pieces on the chessboard of world politics.
For example, after losing the elections in 2022, Donald Trump was suspended and blocked on the network known as Twitter, under the charge of inciting violence at the United States Capitol. However, now that Twitter is called X and is under Musk’s control, Trump (with whom Musk has now aligned himself) once again has an active account on the network.
A case that created a big scandal was when the personal data of millions of Americans on Facebook (belonging to Zuckerberg) was removed, without their consent, for use in the 2016 presidential election campaigns in a North American country.
A large part of the political debates between citizens takes place on the networks, but also with the increasing participation of trolls or bots. In addition, presidents are increasingly using it as a means of communication, as in the case of Javier Milei and Lula Da Silva.
Regarding this growing role of social networks in politics and influencing public opinion, in the case of X, Musk is aware of the power of his platform and made it clear the day he became its owner think of this network as the “digital community. square.” (Source: Luciana Mazzini Puga / UNQ Science News Agency)
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