A Brazilian judge gave Google 15 days (as of yesterday) to deliver the data of Orkut users accused of illegal activity. Google's social site, a failure in the U.S., took off in Brazil, apparently attracting the child pornographers and hate-speech writers that the governement is now chasing down.

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Sergey and Larry flew to Brazil this week, scouting out the country that invaded Google's Orkut. Google wants to expand services in the developing nation, saying that the "lack of legal, cultural and censorship barriers" makes it a great spot to work. Maybe so, or maybe Google just wants to get close to the only people who liked Google's social network site.