Brazil orders Discord to suspend livestreaming after teen suicide
Brazil's data protection authority orders Discord to disable its Go Live livestreaming feature nationwide until child-safety safeguards are demonstrated.
Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) found robust evidence that Discord failed to protect children from harmful content and ordered the Go Live feature suspended until effective safeguards are shown, following the July death of a 13-year-old girl during a roughly 45-minute livestream; five teenagers were arrested. Discord has three business days to implement the suspension and could face fines of up to 50 million reais (about $10 million) per violation. Regulators criticized the March addition of end-to-end encryption to Go Live for limiting real-time content detection, and are also investigating Discord's age-verification and content-removal practices, while a parallel probe tied neo-Nazi recruitment communities to Telegram.
- Suspension applies only to Go Live, not the entire Discord platform
- Regulator says E2E encryption limits Discord's real-time abuse detection
- Discord called the decision premature and is reviewing the order
- Russia and Turkey blocked Discord in 2024 over similar policing concerns
- SaferNet received 406 Discord-related reports in the first seven months of 2026
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- Go Live
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Brazil has ordered Discord to suspend its livestreaming features while authorities investigate whether the platform failed to protect children from content encouraging self-harm and suicide. The National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) said Wednesday that Discord’s Go Live feature must remain disabled until the company can show that it has put effective safeguards in place to protect children and teenagers.
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