🤔 Legal limbo

For more than three months, Brazil’s Supreme Court has held back one of its most consequential rulings in recent memory — a decision that could reshape how the internet operates in the country by heightening the liability of social media companies for the content users post. This unusual delay comes at a politically charged moment, following months of intense pressure from US President Donald Trump regarding digital regulation.

On June 26, the court struck down parts of Article 19 of Brazil’s 2014 Internet Civil Rights Framework, long seen as…

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