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In Brazil, Google Fined For Content of Anonymous Posting
Sabriel writes "Google's appeal against a 2008 defamation ruling in Brazil over an anonymous posting on Orkut has been denied, and Google has been fined $8,500US ($9,100) for the crime of being vandalized. In the words of the judge, Alvimar de Avila, 'By making space available on virtual networking sites, in which users can post any type of message without any checks beforehand, with offensive and injurious content, and, in many cases, of unknown origin, [Google] assumes the risk of causing damage [to other people].' I'd submit a blunter opinion of this farce, but it might be considered offensive and injurious content. ... I wonder if he's related to the judge in Italy?"
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Slashdot should be held responsible for idiotic comments on its pages. Oh, and 3rd post!
In Soviet Brazil, Anonymous Coward pwns Google!
Let's be clear that in Brazil, separation of Church and State means "opposite sides of the confession box".
And judges are Maxwell's demons?
Every time I hear someone proclaim 'the should be a law against saying X' a little part of me dies...
You clearly need a law against saying "there should be a law againt saying".
Oh no! Not the blacklist!
You can live in a place where corporations can do anything and people can do nothing.
I'm pretty sure he doesn't live in China ....
Too many people use anonymity to attack others so as to deny others the ability to respond in defense. Sorry, but calling someone a pedo and then hiding behind an anonymous id is just horseshit.
Spoken like a pedophile who rapes children.
Maybe when Google owns everything end to end they can just have a splash screen to the whole internet saying "I agree not to be offended by anything I may see beyond this point", if you don't check it you don't get in.
they'd just google it.
rewriting history since 2109
FTR, the correct format is Captain Spad, or Captain Spad Pedantic, not just Captain Pedantic