Brazil is about to criminalize fictional content — and it affects everyone online

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Hey everyone, I wanted to raise awareness about a dangerous bill currently moving through Brazil’s Congress: PL 3.066/2025.

It’s being presented as a child protection law, but it contains vague and overreaching provisions that could criminalize fictional content — including anime, drawings, and digital art — and even punish people just for accessing platforms like Google, YouTube, or Discord.

:warning: What’s happening?

  • The bill criminalizes any “child-like pornographic material,” including fictional or AI-generated content, without requiring real victims.
  • It punishes users who “access” or “have accounts” on platforms that host such content — even if they didn’t create, share, or even know it existed.
  • There are no clear criteria for what counts as “child-like” — meaning any stylized or youthful-looking character could be interpreted as illegal.

:firecracker: Why this matters globally

  • This sets a dangerous precedent: criminalizing content based on appearance and speculation, not evidence or harm.
  • It opens the door to mass censorship, where authorities can target platforms and users arbitrarily.
  • It could force global platforms to block content or exit Brazil entirely, affecting millions of users.

Anyway… I’ve tried to push back, but I don’t have the reach to make a real difference. And you know how it goes — anytime you criticize something labeled as “child protection,” people assume you’re defending abuse, or as they say, “defending pedos.”

That’s the trap. Politicians know no one wants to be seen as opposing child safety, so they wrap censorship laws in protective language. This bill is a perfect example: it’s not really about protecting children — it’s about giving the government power to censor big tech platforms under a banner no one dares question.

And honestly? Most people don’t care. :expressionless_face:

So yeah… fiction is about to take a hit. Things will probably get worse before they get better.

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You could send this to american youtubers like Chibireviews or RevSaysDesu. Problem is that it is in brazil and written so vague with what it is trying to target. It could be understood as AI depictions only and that is usually not defended.

Also please do not use Chatgpt and copy paste it here.

Welcome to this shitty world. EU will also pass Chat Control this week.

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I sent to some popular lolicons already, but I had no answers. But I will try those. Also, I’m pretty sure anyone would prefer my ChatGPT corrected and concise version then my original version. My English suck ^^"

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I do not think “nobody cares”. I read some news that people were protesting against banning anime and also some online petitions reaching over 100k signatures.

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2 things. First of all, is this petition for Brazilians only? And secondly, we saw in the UK that apparently governments can ignore these things.

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I didn’t know about that one, but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have a direct relation to this bill I’m talking about. The news there dates from April, and the bill is from June (and yes, it’s moving suspiciously fast; it already passed all commissions, and it’s ready to be put up for voting). But it’s nice to know people are joining to defend ecchi culture; any help counts.

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Highly unlikely. There’s probably a language barrier that makes monitoring discourse a challenge.

This is extremely worrisome, all the same. Lots of lolikons reside in Brazil, and this would put millions of law abiding citizens at risk.

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True, but I mean the ones who have nothing to do with lolicon don’t care if it’s censored. And to be fair, most who are not lolicons don’t exactly hate it either, they just want to stay away from it. It seems to me they know it is harmless, but don’t want to say anything to not be labeled as “pedo defenders”.

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