Brazil Launches AI Platform To Identify and Prosecute Critics of LGBT Ideology

President Lula da Silva’s Brazil has taken another step towards totalitarianism with the launch of a massive platform designed to streamline the prosecution of those who criticize LGBT ideology. With Orwellian irony, it has been called the ‘Platform of Respect.’

“The Ministry of Human Rights, in partnership with the NGO Aliança Nacional LGBTI+, launched a platform aimed at holding legally accountable authors of publications considered to be disinformation or hate speech against LGBTI+ people and other gender identities,” reported Gp1, a major Brazilian news outlet.

The ‘Platform of Respect’ initiative was funded by a R$300,000 (around €50,000) parliamentary amendment sponsored by Erika Hilton, a trans-identifying male politician. According to Gp1, the “system uses an artificial intelligence tool called Aletheia, which, according to its official website, seeks to ‘track the origin of disinformation, report its impact, and enable accountability for authors and disseminators.’”

The ‘disinformation’ the AI platform will be tracking includes ‘misgendering’ politicians. Isabella Cêpa, a gender-critical women’s rights activist, was recently granted refugee status in an unnamed European country after correctly referring to Hilton as a male and facing up to 25 years in prison as a result. Hilton, who was elected to a municipal position in São Paulo in 2020, filed a report with the police.

In 2019, Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court ruled that discrimination against the “LGBTQ Community” is a form of “racism” under the country’s anti-racial discrimination laws, thus constituting “transphobia” as an offence under Brazil’s Penal Code. Since then, there have been a number of high-profile investigations and prosecutions of Brazilian citizens for “transphobia,’ with some facing hefty prison sentences as a result.

“Initially, the project presents itself as a hybrid fact-checking agency, bringing together legal and communications professionals to work over 18 months to combat fake news on social media,” reported Gp1. “During the launch, held in Brasília on September 16, Jean Muksen, the platform’s coordinator, explained that the main objective is to continuously monitor profiles and media outlets, identifying ‘problematic’ content and eventually filing criminal complaints.” 

“We created a platform with several artificial intelligence tools that continuously monitor pages, profiles, websites, and blogs,” Muksen said. He noted that “the technology analyzes discourse, intentions, and nuances of the Portuguese language, including irony and sarcasm, which traditional methods don’t automatically detect” and “when it identifies alleged fake news or a post containing hate speech, the system stores the content in a repository, which can be forwarded to the courts after evaluation by a lawyer hired by the NGO.”

In short, the new system will constantly scan online conversations and, when it identifies an interaction that might constitute “disinformation” or “hate speech” as defined by the state—which includes affirming the sex binary and rejecting the idea that men can become women—it sends the “evidence” to be reviewed for potential criminal prosecution. It is a fusion of totalitarian LGBT ideology and AI technology.

The “Platform of Respect” will also “monitor the profiles of members of Congress and state assemblies, as well as influencers, blogs, and news sites,” and “was developed by a startup, while the LGBTI+ Alliance’s permanent team consists of four professionals: a coordinator, a lawyer, a journalist, and a designer, with an annual maintenance cost of R$140,000.” The persecution of ordinary citizens on behalf of the LGBT movement will be funded by the state—that is, by the taxpayers being targeted.

“Brazil is cosplaying 1984 on steroids,” Isabella Cêpa told europeanconservative.com: 

This platform publicly funded by a politician known for suing anyone who dares to state that he is a man, and for threatening women who refuse to call him a woman with imprisonment, created in partnership with our Ministry of Human Rights, is a blatant offense to everyone who believes that acknowledging biological reality is not an act of hate.

Indeed, another activist from Paraíba was charged in February by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office merely for posting a video about French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, and stating in a separate post that “trans women” are not women. Erika Hilton is listed as a “victim” in the lawsuit, despite the fact that he is not mentioned in either of the posts. Hilton serves as a “prosecutor’s assistant in the case.” 

The offending phrase in the video, which featured a talk by University of Sydney professor emeritus Bronwyn Winter, was the indisputably accurate observation: “A person who identifies as transgender retains their DNA from birth. No surgery, synthetic hormones, or clothing changes will change that fact.” The activist could face up to five years in prison if convicted merely for posting Winter’s words.

“[The defendant] claimed that ‘trans women are not women because they were obviously born male.’ This content highlights discrimination on the part of the accused, since she used biological understanding as a subterfuge to express her prejudice,” Federal Prosecutor José Godoy Bezerra de Souza stated. “By sharing this bias online, it reinforces a transphobic line of thought that suggests viewing the LGBTQIA+ community and its members as pejorative and inferior.”

The ‘“’Platform of Respect’”’ will likely create a flood of similar prosecutions. “Using artificial intelligence to hunt political dissidents is something we once thought belonged far from Brazil’s reality,” Cêpa said. “Today, Brazilian society must fear being caught by the state committing the terrible crime of saying that 2+2=4.”