No, Brazil's "Felca Law" doesn't ban Linux

(This is a translated version of my original text on Medium , where I discuss a huge fake news being spread about brazilian laws and how parental control work on Linux) The misinformation about Brazil's Law 15.211/2025 and Linux is a textbook case of how a legitimate concern becomes panic when nobody reads the source material. On March 8, 2026, MidnightBSD (a niche BSD system most people have never heard of ) proactively blocked Brazilian users. The message was blunt: "Residents of Brazil are not authorized to use MidnightBSD." Right on cue, a week later, my timeline was flooded with alarmist posts about how Brazil's "Felca Law" was going to ban Linux. Videos with all-caps titles, apocalyptic threads, people who never installed a distro in their lives sharing that "the Brazilian government is banning Linux." The full misinformation cycle, start to finish, in less than ten days, fueled by artificial panic and clickbait content. Look, I've been using Linux since the late '90s. I've contr