Brazil Tries To Shut Down Google, After Talking To The Wrong People
from the take-that dept
This fight has been brewing for a while, as the Brazilian government has been demanding information from Google on certain users of its Orkut social networking site, which is used mostly by Brazilians. Now, Brazil is officially suing Google for failing to comply, and is also beginning procedures to shut down its local office in Brazil. Of course, there are a few problems with this lawsuit. First, when presented with the proper evidence, Google did shut down parts of Orkut that were being used for illegal activity. However, much more problematic is that Google has pointed out that Brazil keeps pressuring the company's Brazilian office, which is only an ad sales office and has nothing to do with Orkut at all. Google has noted repeatedly that Orkut is entirely run on U.S. soil, and therefore is subject to U.S., not Brazilian, laws. It seems a little unfair for Brazil to be punishing a totally unrelated Brazilian office just because it's what's there.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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The answer of Pirate's Bay about geography was quite amusing.
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Orkut is stupid.
No one cares about ANOTHER fucking country suing ANOTHER American business, *cough* EU suing Microsoft *caugh*.
The world hates us, we need to learn to deal with the bullshit.
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Re: Orkut is stupid.
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Re: Orkut is stupid.
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When a country asks you to do something, you can end up in trouble if you don't.
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Er, same company?
It really does not make a difference that 'it's another part of the company'. If it did, Arthur Anderson would still be around.
Chris.
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Re: Er, same company?
Whether google is actually doing any evil here is a separate issue. With, I might add, ramifications on what might go down with myspace in the states...
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Poker execs and us law
he was raking in $7 million per day using a US credit card processor and may have also been routing some of his funds to personal bank accounts in the US.
in addition, although his servers were outside the US, his business offices were not: he became a big target because of the size of the operation and because the DOJ could readily show that he was profiting from conducting what our brilliant legal system considers to be an illegal activity on US soil.
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Learning
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Errrr
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Google should take responsibility and shut sites on child porn and nazi propaganda - hidding under the "we are in the US and you can't touch us" is just disgusting.
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To "J"--Google as sensor?
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You don't seem to get it
So first of all the request should have been to Google Inc.
And second any sanctions should have been directed at Google Inc. not Google Brazil.
If I were Google Brazil I would be filing a lawsuit Against Brazil right now
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@Who@CARES@
^ You can tel I went to School ?... LOL's
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Total crime noticed in the Okrut from January to August:
Child pornography 39.185
Apology to crimes against life 18.262
Neonazim 13.253
Animal cruelty and abuse 11.970
Racism 6.512
Religious intolerance 6.427
Homophobia 1.804
Xenophobia 1.014
"The responsibility of the google's office in Brazil is just to sell, to make the business grow"
(Alexandre Hohagen, Google Brasil Contry Manager, in a interview to the Estadao newspaper)
"I lose sleep just thinking the gold mine that Orkut may be"
(Alexandre Hohagen, in a interviews to the Exame magazine)
I'm a Brazilian and I don't deny that there is a lot of corruption in my country. But most of our people are struggling to make this a better place to live.
If a company want's to make profits somewhere, they should respect the country laws. Especially if the laws are aimed to protect childs and life. It's not a matter of International Laws... it's a matter of social responsibility
It seems to me very odd that Google accepted Chinese censorship, but refuses colaboration when Brazilian justice asks for IP address from pedophiles.
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what if..
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World champion in Burocracia.
more than 60 milhoes of process hold at theirs justice system
50.000 brasilians die each year in their roads
without intituicoes solidas the country goes destroing it self.
Politic profession to be rich with public money, they Rob from the bottom to the top, and top tp bottom 80% of munipal verbs desapears for the corruption and bad aplication of money. To rob is call improbability admnistrativa. a tipica solution of jeitinho brasileiro.
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