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Google Fined For Not Blocking Dirty Jokes
from the there-once-was-a-man-from-nantucket dept
sinsi was the first of a few of you to send in the news that Google has been fined by a Brazilian court for not blocking some dirty jokes on its Orkut social network (which, for reasons no one has explained, is only popular in Brazil). This isn't the first time that Google has run into legal trouble over Orkut -- though it appears in every case that the Brazilian courts seem to blame Google for any action done by its users. Have they no safe harbors in Brazil? Do courts really not understand why it makes no sense to blame the service provider for actions of their users? Amusingly, the court even cited the fact that Google censors content in China as a reason for why it could do so in Brazil -- but left out Google's recent decision to pull out of China entirely, rather than continue to filter results.
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Brazil's new slogan
That should draw in the tech companies.
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funny note: On boingo boingo Xeni Jardim was just complaining about a supposedly rip off of some artist that did some cut outs from maps(not a original idea).
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Nissan ad in Brazil.
Funny how people react to things.
She is concerned that some ad agency from Brazil copied the idea from another artist that she knows and goes on to insinuate that this is not cool, and many people point out the errors of her ways.
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"Dude go back to your mommy, she lives under that bridge over there."
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Hmm...
*runs to patent office*
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Orkut's Popularity in Brazil
If you remember back, that was right around the same time that MySpace was gaining in popularity amongst teens and twenty-somethings in the United States. MySpace gained enough users to be self-sustaining in America, while the closed nature of Orkut became popular with Brazilian (and Indian) users.
As MySpace grew in importance in America, the number of active American users at Orkut atrophied. The more that left, the quicker the atrophy.
As a user who signed up for both services right around the same time, it was an interesting transition to watch.
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Re: Orkut\'s Popularity in Brazil
I wonder why, maybe the way Orkut works seems more natural to Brazil than Facebook or Myspace.
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