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Brazilian Evangelicals Set Up a "Sin Free" Version of Facebook
An anonymous reader writes: With $16,000 and the help of the Mayor of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, the town he lives in, Atilla Barros and three other Evangelical Christians created Facegloria, a "sin-free" version of Facebook. Swearing is banned, along with about 600 other words, as well as any violent or erotic content, and depictions of homosexual activity. 100,000 users have signed up the first month. "In two years we hope to get to 10 million users in Brazil. In a month we have had 100,000 and in two we are expecting a big increase thanks to a mobile phone app," Barros says. Acir dos Santos, the mayor, adds: "Our network is global. We have bought the Faceglory domain in English and in all possible languages. We want to take on Facebook and Twitter here and everywhere."
Just registered. No verification whatsoever and it accepted "qwerty" as the password. No https. Not a far fetch to think this site commits other basic security faux pas, too. Easy prey for hackers.
How does shit like this get publicity? It looks like a first project for someone just starting in web development.
Fine.
No matter what language it is in, it is not in "Brazilian"
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