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Orkut Linked To Drug Ring Bust

Posted by Zonk on from the connecting-people-in-new-ways dept.

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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  1. Legal Liability by netruner · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What is Cingular, T-Mobile and Verizon's legal liability for illegal activity ranging from petty drug dealing all the way up to terrorism when their products and network are used to perpetrate those crimes?

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  2. Multilingual? by the_rev_matt · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Since when is Orkut multilingual? I gave up on the site many many months ago when posting something in english in any of the dozens of forums I was in resulted in 20-30 abusive responses in portuguese.

    The Brazilians took over Orkut long ago, it's useless to anyone else.

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    1. Re:Multilingual? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Todas as suas bases estão pertencendo a nós!!!

    2. Re:Multilingual? by Wonko · · Score: 4, Funny

      Americans, especially, are totally obnoxious when it comes to languages: many of them refuse to speak any other language unless they REALLY have to

      That is a completely FALSE statement. I am an American, and I absolutely REFUSE to put myself in a situation where I would be required to speak any other language.

      :)

    3. Re:Multilingual? by IronChef · · Score: 5, Funny

      How do you know the replies were abusive if you don't speak Portuguese? Maybe they were inviting you over to meet their sisters.

  3. Duh! by Locke2005 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And what are the limits of criminal liability in a case like this? Gee, I don't know... what are the limits of liability for the phone companies, postal server, or the package delivery companies if they are used by drug distributors? I beleive the answer is "no liability whatsoever". Why do people think that everything is different if it's done on a computer?

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  4. GoogleDrugs by Lord+Marlborough · · Score: 5, Funny

    332 dime bags jamacain hashish to kilos ::search:: 332 dime bags = 0.71548362344 kilos

  5. Who's Fault Was It? by greymond · · Score: 4, Funny

    So since Ortuk is an "Invite Only" community who invited thier Law Enforcement friend? Guess they don't have to worry about getting "wacked" since on the internet everyone is anonymous...oh wait...shit...

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  6. Re:What is wrong with Marijuana? by 0x0000 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Reagan administration also told us catsup is a vegetable. Now the same idiots think they can convince teenagers to stop having sex.

    People who trust everything the government says are fools

    While that was once true, times have changed. Nowadays people who trust anything the government says are fools.

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