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A judge in Brazil has issued an order to have the boss of Google Brazil arrested, in a rather intense and spectacular fight over the legality of certain YouTube videos.
The issue concerns potentially slanderous clips uploaded to the video sharing site, which are said to be offensive about a candidate in a local mayoral battle. Google is pleading the usual defence in such cases, saying it’s just a humble, inoffensive distribution tool and therefore can’t be held responsible for the content people choose to upload.
The judge ruled that clips, which accuse election candidate Alcides Bernal of some unspecified former crimes, go against local laws and should be removed. Since Google refuses to do so, the amazing decision to have the regional boss arrested has been taken. Google’s appealing the ruling. [BBC]
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Shit a BRIC!
I’ll take the job (once he’s arrested).
How is ‘regional boss’ = president?
El Presidente?
Are you aware of the fact that brazilian people speak portuguese?
thththththth boutros boutros ghali!
Yes, but “A Presidente” didn’t have the same cliche value.
Agreed!
A lot of companies have regional CEOs, which is just exchangeable with presidents.
Who cares what happens in third world countries anyway?
Nuke the bastards.
(Is my usual troll reply when I read something about how shit another country’s justice system is)
Hey! Didn’t you learn what happens to people who talk trash about Brazil? Anderson Silva happens to them!
Two points:
1)Is Brazil technically a third world country?
2)I feel that turning Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran (actually probably the whole of the Middle East) would probably be better options for ‘glassification’ (my word for nuking as the ground turns to a glass like substance near the blast).
1. Yes, even though it has a GDP bigger than the UK
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World
To be fair, they shoot homeless kids on the street, so I’d definitely say it’s third world.
In USA they shoot students in their classrooms, or random people at the cinema. Is USA third world because of that?
To be fair, they shoot innocent students in the head in Manchester..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19002881
And extradite teenagers who didn’t break any local laws.
Well that makes Spain a 3rd world country too…
Oh, the thing I was on about was a load of off duty police officers started shooting at a group of about 80 street children.
Having met and had to raise kids I can understand their p.o.v.
In England they shoot foreigners in the metro for rushing to a departing train, and in Israel they use the army to stop humanitary help to palestinians, and both still considered 1st world…
The kids shooting is a very sad part of our history. It happened in the late 80′s or early 90′s, don’t remember. Just like when the police beats/kills black people in USA, still no justice was made…
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Prefiro não colocar meu nome inteiro aqui. Darrell Jones com o avatar igual ao que ele usa aqui. Se você não achar eu invento um meio de falar meu nome
talvez na língua do P
Indeed. As dirtymagic linked:
“The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either capitalism and NATO (which along with its allies represented the First World), or communism and the Soviet Union (which along with its allies represented the Second World). This definition provided a way of broadly categorizing the nations of the earth into three groups based on social, political, and economic divisions. Due to many of the Third World countries being extremely poor, it became a stereotype such that people commonly refer to undeveloped countries as “third world countries,” often used in a pejorative way.”
Thus developing countries are sometimes called “Third world” just because of this classification.
Brazil is both a Third World country sociopolitically, but also a developing country because its populace are still pretty poor.
Having lived in Russia for a year (not Moscow) I’d question if it can be counted as high as Second World
Touche