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more on Google To Shut Down Violent User Groups in Brazil
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 11:03:32 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Charny, Ben" <Ben_Charny () ziffdavis com> Date: May 30, 2006 10:12:36 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: Seanegan () gmail com Subject: RE: [IP] Google To Shut Down Violent User Groups in Brazil Thanks for the note. This AP story's assembled out of kilter and from all that emerges an error: apparently Google has not shut any Orkut communities down this go round, not yet anyway. (It's not the periodista's fault either; he/she got bad stuff from a Brazil official). Google did meet with Brazilian officials last week, and the jefes promised to send Google a list of about communities they wanted shut down. I wrote something about the situation for Googlewatch on Wednesday. As of Friday, no porn in the mail yet, according to Google, so no communities shuttered. I'll check in today. -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 6:13 AM To: ip () v2 listbox com Subject: [IP] Google To Shut Down Violent User Groups in Brazil Begin forwarded message: From: Brad Malin <brad.malin () gmail com> Date: May 30, 2006 9:07:44 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Google To Shut Down Violent User Groups in Brazil Hi Dave, this may be of interest to the IP readers. Regards, -brad http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16934 Friday, May 26, 2006 Google To Shut Down Violent User Groups in Brazil In response to a human-rights commission, the search engine will now monitor more closely its website communities. By Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Google Inc. said Wednesday that it has agreed to shut down some communities on its popular Orkut social networking site because the Brazilian government says they advocate violence and human rights violations. Google agreed to shut down any sites that violate Orkut's terms of service, which forbid ''any illegal or unauthorized purpose,'' after the company met Tuesday with a Brazilian human rights commission, which presented evidence that Brazilians have been using the invitation-only networking site to promote crimes and violence. Orkut is extremely popular in Brazil with some 8 million users, representing about a quarter of all Brazilians who have access to the Internet. In recent years, news reports have linked drug dealing operations and organized fights between soccer fans to Orkut communities. One community allegedly advocated killing the president and planting a bomb in Congress and explained those thing might be done. <snip> Google, however, did not confirm whether or not they would be handing over user data to the Brazilian government, and said it was still waiting Wednesday for Greenhalgh to provide a list of the questionable sites. <snip> ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as sean () dendro com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/This e-mail message and any attachments to it are for the sole use of the intended recipients and may contain confidential and privileged information. This e-mail message and any attachments are the property of Ziff Davis Media Inc. or its affiliates. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution of this e-mail message or its attachments is prohibited. If you are not an intended recipient, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message and any attachments. Thank you.
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