Overview
- Brazil's Solicitor‑General filed the lawsuit in Brasilia on Wednesday seeking R$500 million for collective moral damages and asking the court to require immediate technical and operational changes at Discord.
- The filing says Discord has “severe gaps” in age verification and user protections that left children exposed, and it requests court orders for age checks, parental supervision tools, automated detection and faster cooperation with local police.
- Authorities moved first through regulators when the ANPD ordered Discord to suspend livestreaming in August after investigators linked a July case — in which five teenagers and one adult were arrested — to a 13‑year‑old girl's death.
- Discord says the suit is disproportionate, says it offered technical fixes and investment proposals and suspended livestreams in Brazil voluntarily while it works on safety measures.
- The case comes as Brazil's ANPD fines and compliance checks for 22 platforms under a new child‑protection law increase pressure on global tech firms and could set legal and technical requirements for how platforms verify age and moderate risky content.