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Google Denies Data In Brazil Orkut Case

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the whose-laws? dept.

mikesd81 writes, "The AP reports that Google filed a motion in response to a Brazilian judge's deadline to turn over information on users of the company's social networking service Orkut. An earlier AP story gives the background: 'On Aug. 22, Federal Judge Jose Marcos Lunardelli gave Google's Brazilian affiliate until Sept. 28 to release information needed to identify individuals accused of using Orkut to spread child pornography and engage in hate speech against blacks, Jews and homosexuals. Google claims that its Brazilian affiliate cannot provide the information because all the data about Orkut users is stored outside Brazil at the company's U.S.-based headquarters. Google maintains that it is open to requests for information from foreign governments as long as the requests comply with U.S. laws and that they are issued within the country where the information is stored.'" Eight million Brazilians, about a quarter of the country's Internet-using population, are members of Orkut.

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  1. Re:Brazilians ruined Orkut by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll
    Orkut is a million times worse. I don't know what the hell is wrong with Brasilians. The Portugese are a great people, as are all of Brasil's South American neighbors. But Brasilians are the most fucking rude, arrogant, self-righteous people on the planet. They move into every community and drown out everyone else all the while insulting those who can't speak Portugese and ignoring any community rule that doesn't suit them.

    I thought it was just Orkut, but they're the same way on IRC. It's some fucked up cultural thing. I'm an op on a book sharing channel on an IRC network and I've banned so many Brasilians it's ridiculous. The other ops have suggested setting a .br K-Line, and if it keeps up we probably will.

    The Brasilians can have Orkut. They're going to need it when they alienate the rest of the world.

  2. Re:Interesting by TheThiefMaster · · Score: 0, Troll

    Only in Corporate America's Internet would this get modded interesting instead of funny/troll. Wait, this isn't America's Internet? Everyone's here? Could have fooled me...