Brazilian Judge Orders 24-hour Shutdown of Google and Youtube

_Sharp'r_ writes "Judge Flavio Peren of Mato Grosso do Sul state in Brazil has ordered the arrest of the President of Google Brazil, as well as the 24-hour shutdown of Google and Youtube for not removing videos attacking a mayoral candidate. Google is appealing, but has recently also faced ordered fines of $500K/day in Parana and the ordered arrest of another executive in Paraiba in similar cases." Early reports indicated that the judge also ordered the arrest of the Google Brazil President, but the story when this was written is that the police haven't received any such order (and an earlier such order was overuled recently). The video is in violation of their pre-election laws.

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Re:I'll throw my mod point away there is good cens

[erroneus]

Pornography. I'm still not so sure pornography is bad.

We like to watch entertainment of the things we like or are interested in. We watch food shows. No one has a problem with that. We watch beauty contests. No one... okay, 'few' have a problem with that. Olympics? Fishing? Golf? Fighting!! You name it; if someone likes it, there's a form of entertainment which will be produced about it. But because it involves sex, a rather basic and extremely universal pleasure in the animal world, we have to say "oh no..."

What we fear, dislike or disapprove of about sex has more to do with religious and social values than anything else. Remove those from the equation and you will see less "forbidden fruit." Suddenly people aren't making unsubstantiated claims like "it harms children!" You know what harms children? Curiosity which isn't managed by adults. Knives, fire, fireworks, guns, heights, roads and streets... sex isn't quite as dangerous as any of those other things and yet somehow we are more concerned over whether or not they know what their 'things' are for than just about anything else.

Re:Pre-election laws

[SaroDarksbane]

I'm yet to speak to someone who spouts nonsense about all censorship being wrong who actually understands and accepts the consequences that come with it.

Then let me be the first: There should be no criminal penalties on any speech, information, or data transmitted from anyone, to anyone.

Re:Pre-election laws

[MacGyver2210]

Basically, you're saying you think censorship is valid in some circumstances? Such as what? Anti-muslim hate videos? Electoral accusations? Videos that disagree with the state's point of view?

Who gets to decide these circumstances? The president, the king, you?

Sounds like a dictatorship to me.