The country’s data protection authority says there is robust evidence Discord failed to keep minors away from content promoting self-harm, and real-time video is the hardest thing on the internet to moderate.
Brazil has ordered Discord to switch off livestreaming across the country, one of the sharpest interventions yet by a regulator that has grown increasingly willing to treat platforms as products rather than neutral pipes.
The National Data Protection Authority, known as the ANPD, gave the company three business days to suspend its “Go Live” feature and similar video-sharing tools.
Discord itself stays online and users in Brazil can still send messages and join servers. What has been pulled is the ability to broadcast live video, and the suspension holds until the company can show the regulator adequate, verifiable measures to protect the children on its service.
The order follows a case that has shaken the country. In July 2026, a 13-year-old girl in central-western Brazil died by suicide after a livestream of roughly 45 minutes.
