Brazil’s government delays key tech bill despite major win in Congress
By Henrique Santiago ( October 9, 2025, 19:49 GMT | Comment) -- The Brazilian administration aimed to submit two regulatory bills, one focused on user safety in digital services and the other on promoting fair competition among tech players, but government officials chose to prioritize the latter after a recent hard-fought victory on a sensitive agenda involving content moderation concerns.Brazil’s government has chosen to indefinitely postpone its submission of a bill meant to regulate digital services. Instead, members of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's administration are putting all efforts into the approval of a proposal focused on granting the national competition regulator more enforcement powers to act against the dominance of Big Tech....
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