Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles In Brazil

Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf, points to a Yahoo! story which begins "Google on Wednesday handed over data stored by suspected pedophiles on its Orkut social networking site to Brazilian authorities, ceding to pressure to lift its confidentiality duty to its users, officials said."

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What's worse?

[jackflap]

I'm not necessarily saying that it's alright to provide personal information of its users, but how bad are paedophiles comparitively really? To be honest, I think paedophiles are the worst offender, far worse than terrorists. At leasts terrorists can be looked at in a positive light, i.e. freedom fighters. What good have paedophiles ever done? You can't even play devil's advocate and say that they're doing anything good. Yes I know my argument is ignoring all specifics of the two types of people. Let me address that, I believe paedophiles have mental health problems, meaning they need medical treatment and not imprisonment. However, the number of paedophiles and rapists who live in our society and never get caught, I reckon, is far far higher than most believe. I do believe something needs to be done to address the issue.

Re:What's worse?

[megaditto]

You can't even play devil's advocate and say that they're doing anything good. Of course they are doing heaps of good as long as sex follows a legal marriage, and as long as the parents and the child consent to such union. Look, kids are gonna fuck around anyways, so you might as place sex in confines of a holy matrimony and with an experienced and loving husband instead of the backseat of dad's car or behind bushes with a drug-infested dumbass.

Young marriage can strengthen Family. For example, a lot of Muslims can marry girls as young as 4 as long as they wait until she's 9 before having sex. Similar practices are true for some fundamentalist Christian sects, Orthodox Jews, and many other religions. Young girls "grow into it" if you like, instead of accepting promiscuity and infidelity as the norm becoming insecure slutty whores.

Late marriage, on the other hand, leads to high divorce rate, lack of trust amongst partners, a feeling of transiency and general insecurity of the relationship. Sexual diseases are at an all-time high in promiscuous late marriage societies encouraging random sex. Currently, 1 in 4 teenage girls in America has an STD: how's that for "Think of the Children" for you?

Traditionally, early marriage is the norm. For most of human history 12-14 was the acceptable marriage age for girls, and certainly some of your ancestors had sex with children by modern definition: girls would be introduced by the time they are 13-14 and married off to an older man within half a year of that. If the girl was single at 16 she was considered to be too old. By 20, an old-maid destined to remain alone forever (read Pride and Prejudice or War and Peace or some other older books for examples of that; notice how some of the characters were pregnant at 15, and certainly mature enough for it. Both books are in the public domain right now).

Also consider that people advocating against marriage to young girls are the very same people that oppose abstinense, chastity, and morality of any sort in general. These tend to be the abortion/homosexualism zealots with their beliefs rooted in devil-worship, bestiality, and occult/nazi practices of yesteryears.

Re:Do no evil

[Tim C]

Cause you know, everyone is entitled to protection of privacy unless suspected (quite possibly innocent, but suspected) of crime-du-jour, whether today's hatred is towards child abuse, terrorism or being member of a communist party.

Playing devil's advocate for a moment, but surely investigation of a person suspected of criminal behaviour requires an invasion of their privacy? How else do you gather the information necessary to ascertain their guilt or innocence?

Now TFA makes no reference to subpoenas being served, which is what I find troublesome; it appears that google caved to the threat of legal pressure, rather than due process - *but* I don't know what due process in Brazil is.

they should be treated as innocent until proven guilty, and mere suspicion should never be enough to remove rights that you and I enjoy

It's not as cut and dried as that unfortunately. Sometimes certain rights - like the right to liberty - need to be denied suspects until their innocence is proven, due to the risk of their committing further offences, or of fleeing justice.

Hurray for Google

[Acid-Duck]

I applaud their move. Some people might try (and I'm using the word try ) to argue some things are worst, i.e. : murders or whatever else, but the truth is that children whom have gone through such experiences are often terrified and have a very difficult time to talk about it, not only because it's an awful thing to go through, but often their vocabulary doesn't permit them to express themselves as they want to, and this will result in the person growing up with deep psychological issues all his/her life.

I usually laugh at the people trying to ban violent video games (OMG think of the kids!!) or other similar non-sense but the truth is

Pedophilia is no laugher matter. Hurray for Google even if they did this only because they felt the pressure, I hope others follow in their footsteps!

Re:Once the government's bitch, evermore their bit

[TufelKinder]

Well, considering the fact that monitoring != "data-mining," I'd say you're just jumping to unverified conclusions and propagating fear to try to justify your illogical position.