Orkut Linked To Drug Ring Bust

Dynamoo writes "Google's Orkut service has been allegedly used to sell drugs by a Brazilian outfit, according to a BBC news report. According to the report, the dealers offered pot and ecstasy for sale via the system to Brazil's large Orkut user community. Google is reported to be investigating. One interesting issue that springs to mind is: how can you monitor and moderate such a large, multilingual community such as Orkut? And what are the limits of criminal liability in a case like this?"

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I've heard rumors that drug dealers...

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...sometimes talk with their customers using speech. Speech provides a means for organising meeting times, discussing drug quality, and negotiating with customers. All of these play an important part in drug dealing. I propose that we outlaw human speech and instead insist that people communicate only by electronics means so that automatic filtering techniques can be used to track down evil people.