Hate speech and abusive behaviour on social media: A cross-cultural perspective

Luiz Valério’s contributions are important as a complaint against the systemic spread of hate on social media. A hatred that, in contemporary times, becomes a model of technical management responsible for suggesting the modern and colonial logics of hierarchization and precariousness of subjects announced at a distance from normative systems. In light of anti-colonial and anti-discriminatory perspectives, Luiz Valério’s theses confront the ritualization of violence taking place on networks and screens, as a manifestation of the modern pillory. In this scene, the screens and the network contribute to the radical exposure of bodies announced as massacreable within a hostile logic of race, gender and other markers used to separate subjects from humanity. By announcing the inseparability of online life from offline experience, Luiz Valério invites us to ethical-political reflections committed to the continuity of discriminatory systems and their fetish of power.

Dr. Thiago Teixeira

Professor of Philoshophy

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, PUC-MG, Brazil

Luiz Valério Trindade’s research has made a decisive contribution to raising awareness about the regulation of social media platforms in Brazil, as it points out precisely how these virtual spaces have become a ‘modern pillory’, while also proposing concrete solutions. A captivating, necessary and cutting-edge piece of academic research.

Djamila Ribeiro, writer and philosopher

Professor Luiz Valério Trindade carries out an in-depth investigation into the construction of the denial of racism as a fundamental strategy for establishing the project of racial supremacy, a project that found on social media platforms an environment favorable to the mobilization of discriminatory speeches. A vital work for understanding contemporary times and for proposing effective anti-discrimination measures on social networks.

Brenno Tardelli

Lawyer

Law School of Ribeirão Preto at University of São Paulo (FDRP/USP), Brazil