A responsabilidade de agentes políticos por conteúdos compartilhados no âmbito das suas redes sociais digitais

Abstract

The present work intended to propose objective parameters to assess, within the scope of digital social networks, the hypotheses in which the individual holding a political position, function or mandate is subject to accountability under the legal regime of political agents or ordinary citizens. For that, the hypothetical-deductive method was adopted, by means of which, exposed the gap in the scientific knowledge that is intended to be exhausted, the hypothesis and deductive inference were formulated, which proved the prediction of the occurrence of phenomena covered by the referred hypothesis. Using the above method, it was found that in the pre-digital era the parameters of distinction between the public and private personas of the political agent were based (i) on the privacy of the space in which the manifestations and acts of the mentioned individual took place, as well as (ii) the content of the manifested content; and (iii) to whom it was intended. Thus, transposing the old parameters to the peculiarities of digital social networks, it was concluded that the criteria to be used, including in the digital environment, have become (i) advertising or the privacy of the profile in which the statements of the individual holders occur political positions, functions or mandates, as well as (ii) the content of these manifestations; and (iii) who they are for