Comment on Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order

• ViatorOmnium@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You are thinking about dignity and imagining a British aristocrat drinking tea from a fine porcelain cup with the pinky held up while plotting world domination. That's the vernacular meaning of dignity.

  In the context of human rights, dignity is the natural right of every single person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically.

  You don't infringe it by saying that your government is being managed by incompetent or immoral people. You infringe it when you say women belong in the kitchen and not in the office, or that black people are naturally inferior to black people, or that gay people don't have right to love who they love, etc.

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