Google Facing Charges From Brazil?
 

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...atin_ame rica

Now this is an interesting story. Brazil threatening to file charges against Google. Read why.

"Google Inc., the owner of Brazil's most-used online community site, may face a criminal probe for distribution of child pornography and racist materials by its users, lawyers for the attorney general said.

The lawyers, saying Google failed to comply with a court order to turn over information on where the material comes from, said they will ask a federal judge to authorize a police investigation of the Mountain View, California-based company's Brazilian unit. The service, Orkut, is being used to violate Brazilian law, said prosecutors Sergio Suiama and Karen Kahn."

wow, this is serious!

Sig Spot.

This should be interesting to see how it turns out....Surprising Google wouldn't be on top of this already.

Google = untouchable

dont all the big companies go through 100 lawsuits a year? lol

ah oh...ill take a sig spot

I'm sure the google will face this accusations and will find a way to win.

My thoughts too..

They could probably buy and sell Brasil.

LOL Orkut, what a flop that was... they need to revamp, re-name, and re-launch that site with a "Google's version of myspace" marketing campaign.

You know the coding quality would be great, and server speeds much faster than myspace.

Its the google marketing & PR depts that fucked up on that one IMHO.

This isn't google ... this is their community site.

Orkut is a cess pool.

2hp

I fail to see why google could be charged because some racist morons posted shit on orkut?

holy shit !

Google will not falter