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Google Brazil Exec "Detained" For Refusing YouTube Takedown Order

Posted by timothy on from the taking-one-for-the-team dept.

h00manist writes that, as promised, "The police executed an order to detain Google's top executive in Brazil (Original in Portuguese), Fábio José Silva Coelho. Google refused an order to remove a YouTube video which accused a mayoral candidate of several crimes. Police say he will be released today; Brazilian law for the case allows for a one-year max sentence. Streisand Effect, anyone?"

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  1. When in Rome... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If your company policy requires you to break local laws, you have two options:

    1) break local laws, and go to a local jail.

    2) quit your job.

    There are, of course, ways of changing the laws and such...but until such time as those happen, the two above options are basically your only options.

  2. Re:I'm Brazilian and this is'nt censorship by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How do you know they are lies? And as far as I can see, the accuser does identify himself (unless he's using a fake full name as his YouTube username). I'm also Brazilian and I understand the need for this kind of law, but under Brazil's electoral law, it should be the accuser who is prosecuted, not the owner of the platform he's using to make the accusation.

    Brazil has a recurring problem with this - not sure how much it's the judges' fault or the prosecutors' fault, probably taking advantage of the fact that judges know nothing about how the internet works. Hopefully, our Internet Bill will be passed in Congress soon and end these bullshit interpretations of the law...

    (Definitely agree with you on record companies though - Google is always quick to comply with theirs and Hollywood's take down orders.)

    (Oh, and I'm not an Anonymous Coward, I just can't find where to identify myself! :P)