A responsabilidade civil nas redes sociais: uma proposta de análise à luz do pensamento de Cícero

Afonso Medici Micheletti; Nathaly Campitelli Roque

doi:10.19135/revista.consinter.00017.03

Autores

Afonso Medici Micheletti Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8305-5054
Nathaly Campitelli Roque Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5275-6913

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19135/revista.consinter.00017.03

Palavras-chave:

Liberdade de expressão, redes sociais, Responsabilidade Civil, virtudes, Cícero

Resumo

The steady growth of Internet access has led to a significant increase of social media in the last decades. The high speed at which information spreads online, in an increasingly connected society, indicates the harmful potentiality of the inappropriate use of social media. There is increasing concern about the impact of hate speech and the spread of fake news, as well as the dissemination of intimate images, nude photos or pornography without consent. This study examines whether the concept of virtue as proposed by Cicero is applicable to the contemporary legal apparatus and its compatibility with civil liability standards when confronted with damages due an abusive exercise of free speech on social media. A deductive approach and literature review were used in this research. Many of the concepts discussed by Cicero have been incorporated into Western law throughout history, such as good faith and the common good, which place limits on the exercise of individual freedoms, such as freedom of expression, and also provide important guideposts for the interpretation and application of the entire legal system. Reason, prudence and moderation must be present to ensure respectful and productive debate among members of society. The abusive exercise of the right to free expression, with negative effects on third parties, violates the precepts of justice ("do no harm" and "to give each his own") and requires the enforcement of civil liability as an appropriate means of redress.

Summary: Introduction. 1. Digital media and the harm to human dignity. 2. The limits of freedom of expression in the Brazilian legal system. 2.1. Freedom of expression in a pluralist constitutional order. 2.2. Freedom of expression and the abuse of right in the 2002 Civil Code. 3. Civil liability as a possible answer to damage remediation. 3.1. Civil Code legal treatment. 3.2. Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet (Law No. 12.965/14). 3.3. Legal precedents evolution. 4. Virtue in Cicero and the present relevance of his lessons to guide the legal treatment of civil liability and freedom of expression on social media. 4.1. Cicero's thoughts on “On Duties”: the central importance of virtue 4.2. Cicero's insight for the theme study. Final Considerations. Bibliographic References.

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Biografia do Autor

Afonso Medici Micheletti , Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Lawyer. Bachelor of Laws at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC/SP), with an academic exchange at The Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). MBA degree in Civil Procedural Law at PUC/SP. Attending Master's degree in Constitutional Law at PUC/SP. E-mail: afonsomicheletti@hotmail.com, https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8305-5054.

Nathaly Campitelli Roque , Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Faculty member at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo's Law School (PUC/SP). Former visiting scholar at Universidade Clássica de Lisboa and Universidade de Coimbra. PhD and Master's degree in Law at PUC/SP. Attorney at the General Attorney's Office of São Paulo. E-mail: ncroque@pucsp.br, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5275-6913.

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