Brazil wants Google info on alleged pedophiles
A panel of the Brazilian senate has ordered Google to provide access to account information for 3,261 suspected pedophiles who've used Google's Orkut social-networking service, Agence France-Presse reported Wednesday.
Under the order, a Senate committee investigating pedophilia would receive Google information identifying Orkut users who publish criminal material--information the search giant has refused to give to the Brazilian government, according to AFP.
In addition, the chief of Google's Brazilian operations, Alexandre Hohagen, told the panel Google will take measures to stop child pornography and hate crimes on Orkut, The Associated Press reported.
In August, Google had banned users who allegedly had spread child pornography and hate speech regarding blacks, homosexuals, and Jews, but had refused to share the users' identities with Brazil, citing U.S. privacy laws, the AP said.
Nobody's surprised that the same old legal and moral issues about sex have made their way to the Internet, but dealing with them has been tough. For example, MySpace.com grappled for months with sex offender issues, and in January unveiled a plan to make its site safer for teens.
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- As I recall...
- by ortzinator April 11, 2008 9:09 AM PDT
- Simply being a pedophile is not against the law.
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- It isn't against the law
- by Leria April 11, 2008 11:02 PM PDT
- And it's simply time to make it legal to be a pedosexuals and legalize the actions connected with it.
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(3 Comments)I can speak from EXPERIENCE when I say that most of the 'harm' from children and adults having sex together comes from the reactions of society to those relationships.
Luckily, I never 'exposed' the people who 'sexually abused' me and never wanted to, because I enjoyed the sexual encounters between myself and adults.
Same thing for most of the 'victims' I have spoken with, they only have problems when their parents, society and the 'law' got involved in their sexual relationships, which they should just butt out of.