Overview
- Two Projetos de Decreto Legislativo were filed in the Chamber of Deputies on Friday by Deputy Rodrigo Valadares to suspend the effects of two presidential decrees that regulate platforms and protect women online.
- The government issued the decrees on May 20–21 to tighten rules for social networks, giving the Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (ANPD) broader oversight and requiring platforms to remove certain content after notification without a court order.
- Opposition filings argue the decrees usurp Congress by creating new platform duties such as content monitoring, extrajudicial takedowns and liability for 'systemic failures,' and they say vague terms like 'violência digital' and 'ataques coordenados' risk excessive preventive removals.
- Deputy Coronel Tadeu and other opposition figures publicly urged annulment and proposed instead updating criminal statutes to cover online harms such as cyberbullying, saying courts rather than executive rule should handle individual grievances.
- The Chamber must vote to sustain or nullify the PDLs, with decrees remaining legally in force until Congress acts; the outcome will shape how Brazil balances protection from online abuse, platform responsibility, and constitutional limits on executive regulation.